tadd 8 bits to entropy target, to offset the constraint imposed by is_new_seed - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/electrum DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Submodules --- DIR commit 8816d7072f2c89d9ceb35522415e42ff4cbf78fb DIR parent 4d71707be828687b1b270f84c42dc3eb739f39d3 HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:40:36 +0200 add 8 bits to entropy target, to offset the constraint imposed by is_new_seed Diffstat: M lib/mnemonic.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- DIR diff --git a/lib/mnemonic.py b/lib/mnemonic.py t@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class Mnemonic(object): def make_seed(self, num_bits=128, custom_entropy=1): n = int(math.ceil(math.log(custom_entropy,2))) # we add at least 16 bits - n_added = max(16, num_bits-n) + n_added = max(16, 8 + num_bits - n) print_error("make_seed: adding %d bits"%n_added) my_entropy = ecdsa.util.randrange( pow(2, n_added) ) nonce = 0 t@@ -97,5 +97,6 @@ class Mnemonic(object): # this removes 8 bits of entropy if is_new_seed(seed): break + print_error('%d words'%len(seed.split())) return seed