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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Collection of 18.509 found and used Brainwallets
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PrimeNumber7
on 21/08/2022, 21:48:56 UTC
How is someone supposed to remember the exact number of hashing rounds? I think in both the WarpWallet and your proposed ~1.2 million rounds of hashing implementations, you will need to either document the rounds of hashing,  or rely on a third party to help calculate the private key, and I don't think this meets the definition of a brain wallet.
With WarpWallet you can (and should!) keep your own offline copy.
If you're going for a "weird" number of hashing rounds, I can think of many ways to remember the number. It could be your phone number or full date of birth. Or just something you remember. Worst-case, if you forget the exact number, you can still brute-force it yourself given that you know the pass phrase.
You can keep your own copy of the software used to generate the private key, but if you are relying on a specific, non-standardized software implementation, you must have access to a copy of that software implementation to access your coin. This creates another layer of risk because now, without the software, you will not have access to your money.