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merland / seedpicker

Create your own BIP39 seed phrase, securely and transparently.
http://seedpicker.net
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Advanced feature: allow for different lengths of mnemonics #14

Closed mflaxman closed 4 years ago

mflaxman commented 4 years ago

Why only 11 or 23 words? https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ also allows 14, 17, or 20 words.

I could see an argument for only supporting 23 words, but if you're going to allow for less secure mnemonics, more choice seems only better.

Burying everything but 23 words in an advanced section makes a lot of sense.

merland commented 4 years ago

The first version supported only 24 word seeds, for UX simplicity reasons and to encourage the safest possible choice. Then there was a feature request, issue #8, which was implemented. That decision may have been misguided. @freddiemacd: You requested the 12-word version, could you please give some more background to your reasoning?

merland commented 4 years ago

For simplicity reasons and for the reason mentioned in #13, only 24 word seeds will be supported from now on.

secinthenet commented 3 years ago

@merland I'm interested in a 12-words version because it makes it much easier to remember the seed. Why did you choose to only keep the 24 words version?

merland commented 3 years ago

@secinthenet Thanks for the feedback. Most hardware wallets use 24 word seeds and I try to keep SeedPicker as simple as possible, in order to not confuse newbies. It's a tradeoff of course. I haven't seen many people or projects use 12-word seeds, so it seemed like a good tradeoff to not complicate the user interface.