0 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 20 Jun \ on: Is 24 words seed safer than 12 words in terms of bruteforcing the private key bitcoin_beginners
I saw this debate on twitter. People with more technical knowledge than I seem to assert 12 is as safe as 24.
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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @Fabs 20 Jun freebie
How can a 128-bit sequence be more secure than a 256-bit sequence?
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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 20 Jun
The key you’re going to use is 128-bit.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs 20 Jun
Hm, can you expand on it?
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @doubleplusgood23 20 Jun
I’m not a cryptographer but my understanding is your actual bitcoin private key is 128-bits. So using a 24 word phrase that generates a 128-bit key anyway is unnecessary complexity.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 21 Jun
The amount of words are dependent on the amount of bit-chunks: for each 11-bit chunk, a corresponding word is selected.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 20 Jun
Glean from this what you will.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 20 Jun
Defies logic.
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