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Re: Console make_seed() and vscode environment
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jubalix
on 05/01/2025, 03:20:07 UTC

Yes.

It may worth mentioning that you don't really increase your security with increasing the number words to more than 12.
A 12 word seed phrase provides the same security as a bitcoin private key.

My high level thinking - as I don't quite grok the detail is this

The known 2048 words at 128 = 2^128 and IF (and its a big if) there was a sufficently large qbit computuer, becomes  2^64 problem that is a lot more crackabble.

A 24 brings this back to 128 in these conditions.

haveing 2048 know words mean the map to a particular key space -

if you have say 1 unkown word in the mix, then the attacker is really stuck, as they have a much larger dictionary to choose from and you dont have to use a word.

So it seems to me that the space of of the private key is larger than the space of the 2048 word dictionary versions as I can map to a private key that is not int he 2048 space by using my own words or strings

look forward to being shown the error of my thinking