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Board Electrum
Re: Seeing output of 40 BTC when i'm trying to send 1 coin
by
DeathAndTaxes
on 20/04/2014, 19:58:06 UTC
I get it... However, bitcoin already has key stretching. 

Bitcoin the protocol does not use key stretching.

Bitcoin-core "the client" uses key stretching to harden to the WALLET DECRYPTION PASSPHRASE against brute force attack.  Nothing more.   Electrum doesn't copy that code from bitcoin-core wallet so it isn't key stretching "again".


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edit: actually i dont think it would increase the entropy, just add more stretching, since the seed has less entropy than a 160 bit "normal" priv key

Private keys only have 128 bit key strength.  Not 160 bit and not 256 bit.