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Board Electrum
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin Client
by
slacker
on 24/09/2014, 18:58:53 UTC
Can we Diceware the Electrum word list? I mean I prefer to use real dices to the computer's random number generator to give me my words.

This script is using random numbers from dice, hashed random strings and computer generated random numbers. All random numbers are mixed using bitwise XOR.

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Here is "Diceware" for Electrum 1.x. The disadvantage is you should "throw away" most of the random numbers (because there are 1625 words but all possible random numbers made with 5 dice rolls are 7776).

If you have 5 dice, you should roll them about 5 times for every random word you need (you roll them until you get valid senary number - the probability of getting the valid senary number is 20%). This is the price you pay for not using computer.

This works only with Electrum 1.x because 2.x is using checksums.