φ and χ are unused recovery symbols.

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A paper computer for Shamir's Secret Sharing over the Bech32 alphabet.

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φ and χ are unused recovery symbols. #2

Closed roconnor-blockstream closed 2 years ago

roconnor-blockstream commented 4 years ago

The φ and χ entries on the recovery disc are trivial and the symbols never will occur in the recovery table. They can be removed from the recovery character set, and the character set can be rearranged and simplified to remove two entries.

roconnor-blockstream commented 2 years ago

Fixed in 0080c91b63a5eae19f13f90d36407cc245ff0ecb.