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Re: Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet root key with optional encryption
by
riplin
on 04/02/2014, 08:25:38 UTC
There's a third option. Basically, if we want the same security as we have right now, the bloom has to be based on the full decryption pass and thus can't be part of the salt.

So we need to add some extra bytes for salt entropy. Currently, the prefix is 3 bytes long. I'll have to check, but if we add 1 or 2 extra bytes, it'll become 2 bytes again, giving us either 11 or 19 bits of extra entropy (+ 5 bits for KDF selection).

I'll try and have a look at that tomorrow.