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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @klk OP 23 Jun \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Safety: Why 12 Words are Better Than 24 - YouTube bitcoin
I don't scramble my words tbh. Just add a long enough BIP39 passphrase on top.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 23 Jun
Neither do I but I have met some people who think they are hot shit because they scramble their 12 words to protect themselves from an attacker.
This would obviously work for a very low level attacker, but anybody with the desire to do some Google searching and has access to even mediocre computer power could crack 12 scrambled words
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @klk OP 23 Jun
Exactly.
So, how hard is it to find the right order of 12 words? There are ~480 million permutations of those 12 words. Luckily, because of the BIP39 standard we have some advantage, the 12th word is a checksum. So only 1 in 12 of those permutations constitutes a valid mnemonic. We are down to 14 paragraphs with ~50 million valid mnemonics from each.
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