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From: Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club>
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Subject: Re: Using Diceware, BIP39 and leetspeak for Argon2id keys
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:03:33 -0000
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Stefan Claas wrote:

> BTW. I figured out something IMHO really nice.
> 
> When using my dice2bip program with a '0', for example, as passphrase value
> I get the following BIP39 mnemonics:
> 
> $ dice2bip -passphrase 0
> 24-word mnemonic:
> grow chronic river sand follow wide spell depth change exclude diet disease around couple buzz domain public addict pave focus top crane glue valid
> 
> And now comes the fun part.
> 
> Feeding this mnemonic into https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and pressing
> the Show entropy details, I have made the '0' 256 bit entropy so to speak
> and could theoretically use the hex values as deterministic encryption key.

I renamed my dice2bip program, on GitHub, to p2m (password to mnemonic)
and it has now a feature added to show the entropy, as hex value, of the
mnemonic phrase.

This allows one for example to use the mnemonic phrase from a Ledger Hardware
Wallet to use as 256 bit encryption key. :-D

-- 
Regards
Stefan