[Bitcoin-development] BIP0039: Final call

Luke-Jr luke at dashjr.org
Mon Jan 20 20:02:27 UTC 2014


On Monday, January 20, 2014 5:42:37 PM slush wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> during recent months we've reconsidered all comments which we received from
> the community about our BIP39 proposal and we tried to meet all
> requirements for such standard. Specifically the proposal now doesn't
> require any specific wordlist, so every client can use its very own list of
> preferred words. Generated mnemonic can be then applied to any other
> BIP39-compatible client. Please follow current draft at
> https://github.com/trezor/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki.

How are they compatible if they could be using entirely different word lists??

> Because we're quickly moving towards release of Trezor firmware and we need
> to finalize this part of the firmware, we're asking for the last comments
> to current BIP39 draft.

Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't this be a client-side thing, not 
implemented in the Trezor firmware at all?? O.o;;

Luke




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