Re: I think I will stick to a 24 word seed phrase ( 12 words brute forced )

Quote from: mailsats on Today at 06:55:01 AM

Here is a link to the story

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-advocate-cracks-known-12-word-seed-phrase-in-minutes

I have heard people say the 12 words is secure enough... although, to be fair, the hacker in the story was given the 12 words, and had to put them in the correct order... using BTCrecover

thoughts?

Puting 12 words in the correct order is EXTREMELY more easy than guessing 12 words from BIP39 an puting them in the correct order.

I mean, let me give you 12 words (A,B,C,...,L). Then you have 479001600 possible combinations.

However BIP39 consists of 2048 words. So, If you want to guess 12 words out of the 2048 and try to arrange them in the correct order gives you 5,271,537,971,301,488,476,000,309,317,528,177,868,800 possible combinations.

Just don't (I repeat, DON'T) ever think of letting someone know your words even if the order is incorrect.