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Quote from: ovcijisir on April 27, 2025, 10:17:00 AM
Quote from: nc50lc on April 27, 2025, 04:48:34 AM
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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)

But even if it consists entirely of BIP39 wordlist, 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

Take note that Electrum versions older than v4.1.3 (2021) can create a valid BIP39 seed by chance.
Original archived Re: How safe it is to use 4 letter shortened words?
Scraped on 27/04/2025, 14:06:28 UTC
Quote from: ovcijisir on April 27, 2025, 10:17:00 AM
Quote from: nc50lc on April 27, 2025, 04:48:34 AM
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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)