Timeline for Would it be wise and extra secure to use non-ascii characters in a brain wallet?
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| Oct 20, 2015 at 21:28 | comment | added | Patoshi パトシ | so it would be wise for those that understand unicode encoding differences to use these characters. as the majority of the population wouldn't be using it, so in effect you have something you cant even brute force due to the fact that hackers dont have these characters in their brute forcing systems. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 18:12 | comment | added | Pieter Wuille | If we're talking about choosing which characters to appear in a brainwallet, we're almost certainly talking about the first, and the answer is indeed "no because you shouldn't be using a brainwallet like that at all". | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 3:20 | comment | added | Claris | Mostly, "no because this doesn't fix the problem with brainwallets and probably makes them considerably worse". Your mileage may vary but I don't think most people can be reasonably expected to remember a BIP39 seed, humans are pretty lossy with that sort of information if they don't recall it very regularly. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 3:15 | comment | added | morsecoder | So, in short, "no because using a brainwallet is not a wise thing to do". I just wanted to point out for the reader that there's two types of wallets that sometimes get called brainwallets. Wallets where you pick a phrase, and wallets where the wallet generates a 12-24 word phrase for you. The second method is fairly secure, and won't ever have non-standard characters in the output, because the goal is to be easy to retype. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:49 | history | answered | Claris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |