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Re: How safe it is to use 4 letter shortened words?
by
nc50lc
on 27/04/2025, 14:06:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by apogio (1)
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Do you know maybe when creating new seed in Electrum if by chance I get all words that are BIP39 compatible (without "special" words unique for Electrum word list) can I recreate that seed on BIP39 wallet?
There's zero percent chance that it will be a valid BIP39 seed since Electrum is coded not to use a combination of words that has a valid BIP39 seed checksum.
For reference: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/a511ab8e78164bb1ed617a66b59d4cadfc46c501/electrum/mnemonic.py#L226-L229

For the "special words" those are only used to create the wallet's seed in the old versions,
It's only used for seed phrase backwards compatibility today. (for recovery purposes only)