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Board Electrum
Re: 12 word vs 24 word seeds
by
NeuroticFish
on 01/12/2018, 16:14:26 UTC
Does anyone have the exact numbers of how much protection you get using a 24 word seed vs using the conventional default standard that shows up automatically when you create a wallet in Electrum?

It's still not clear to me that you can trust this type of wallet, that could be bruteforced and then all of your keys are compromised forever as long as you keep creating them on that wallet. It still seems safer to use a wallet.dat file. I want to see the math.

From what I know, they are safe enough against brute force, some numbers should be on reddit. They say that for 12-word Electrum seed it would be needed about 1012 years.
And from this point I think that 24 words is just extra hassle. Maybe it would even help more to add your favorite word as custom word, but I am no specialist.