Mmm.... How about importing a 12 word bip39 seed that I have already generated?
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As in I have an old seed from electrum and I want to put it into the BW matrix.
It can work, you just won't have a memorable pattern. You can write down the cells like A122 G7 C65 ...
Remember to do all the words including the last word because the last word calculator doesn't work on AEZEED, I think.
I've been playing with it. I think its good for a new wallets but seems a bit confusing for wallets already created.
Just wondering about the design. Is there a reason you can't enter old words into a new generated grid in the desired pattern?
Yes. The reason is that other wallets have generated a (hopefully) random seed which is not designed to make a memorable grid.
If we put your words in your pattern order onto a grid then that grid is not random anymore.
This makes it easier for someone that finds your grid to brute force your words because they are not in a random order.
Bad for your corn.
What if there were an offline client where you could enter your words into your pattern, and each word that you enter is replaced randomly with another.
If the grid was randomly generated and the changed words also randomly replaced, how would that reduce entropy?
I don't understand you. If you swap your words in your pattern with random words, how do you recover them from the pattern later?
OK, so I generate a random grid. I start my pattern at 120A which has a word "satoshi" there. The first word in my seed is "cat". The client swaps the word from wherever "cat" was, and replaces "satoshi" to its position.
Once you have input all seed words, this becomes the new grid.
Do you play any card games? Poker?
If I shuffle a deck of cards and then place specific cards in specific places, would you still want to play cards against me? Would you go all in with your sats against me?
I'll admit I don't know enough about entropy. But is that analogy accurate?
Electrum generates a random phrase, the grid generates a random grid, then I put a random shape with my seed words somewhere.
Anyway, you're probably right.
I like the idea of BW, but it needs to be better for using an already generated seed to keep TX off chain. Its not so intuitive to me.
I might try it with an overlay, like a piece of paper with holes that sits on top of the grid and points out its order. Storage of course would need to be kept separately to the grid.