Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list
I was inspired to join the mailing list to comment on some of these
discussions about BIP39, which I think will have great use in the Bitcoin
community and outside it as a way to transcribe binary data.
The one thought I had as the discussions about similar characters are
resulting in culling words from the list, is that it only helps to validate
input, not help the user if it is incorrect.
For example, if both cat and eat were in the word list, and someone
wrote down eat, but later mis-translated it and put cat back into
translator, the result would be a checksum error; cat is a different
number, so the checksum would fail.
As it currently stands, cat would not be a valid word (eat is the real
word, and no other number is cat), so the translator can throw a
different error which is more helpful (i.e. 'cat' isn't a valid word
choice), but still doesn't get the user to the proper translation.
What about if the wordlist included those words that are so similar to
each other that we only kept one of them and had them all refer to the
same number? I propose the wordlist have the possibility of multiple words
on a single line, with the first word on the line being the primary or
real word to be used, with the other similar words be included so that a
translation program if it wanted to assist the user could fix their input
for them (verbosely or not), along the lines of 'cat' isn't a valid word
choice; assuming you meant 'eat', which is valid. You might still hit a
checksum error if that similar word is still the wrong word, but as it
stands now, I know you culled a bunch of words from the wordlist as too
similar, but if I want to try and help the user fix a bad input, I need to
write a translation program with a full english dictionary alongside the
BIP39 dictionary.
I'd be willing to create a pull request for such an update, but before I
delve into that, does this sound like a good idea? I could see it devolving
into a slippery slope if every number in the 2048 set had a dozen word
variations (misspellings, similar words, slang terms for the real word,
etc.) which could get confusing of how similar is similar enough to be
added as an alternate, and the standard would need to be clear that when
translating binary to words, you only use the main word for that row, not
any of the variations.
MidnightLightning
I've just pushed updated wordlist which is filtered to similar characters
taken from this matrix.
BIP39 now consider following character pairs as similar:
similar = (
('a', 'c'), ('a', 'e'), ('a', 'o'),
('b', 'd'), ('b', 'h'), ('b', 'p'), ('b', 'q'), ('b', 'r'),
('c', 'e'), ('c', 'g'), ('c', 'n'), ('c', 'o'), ('c', 'q'),
('c', 'u'),
('d', 'g'), ('d', 'h'), ('d', 'o'), ('d', 'p'), ('d', 'q'),
('e', 'f'), ('e', 'o'),
('f', 'i'), ('f', 'j'), ('f', 'l'), ('f', 'p'), ('f', 't'),
('g', 'j'), ('g', 'o'), ('g', 'p'), ('g', 'q'), ('g', 'y'),
('h', 'k'), ('h', 'l'), ('h', 'm'), ('h', 'n'), ('h', 'r'),
('i', 'j'), ('i', 'l'), ('i', 't'), ('i', 'y'),
('j', 'l'), ('j', 'p'), ('j', 'q'), ('j', 'y'),
('k', 'x'),
('l', 't'),
('m', 'n'), ('m', 'w'),
('n', 'u'), ('n', 'z'),
('o', 'p'), ('o', 'q'), ('o', 'u'), ('o', 'v'),
('p', 'q'), ('p', 'r'),
('q', 'y'),
('s', 'z'),
('u', 'v'), ('u', 'w'), ('u', 'y'),
('v', 'w'), ('v', 'y')
)
Feel free to review and comment current wordlist, but I think we're
slowly moving forward final list.
slush
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list
The problem with this is that you might have word A which is similar to B,
but B is also similar to C. So we scrub B from the list, someone enters B,
and we have no way to know if it means A or C. It leads to a much more
complicated scheme to ensure that all errors are correctable.
Scrubbing A, B, and C is preferable, since it leads to no ambiguity and
there is no need to try to correct an error.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Brooks Boyd bo...@midnightdesign.ws wrote:
I was inspired to join the mailing list to comment on some of these
discussions about BIP39, which I think will have great use in the Bitcoin
community and outside it as a way to transcribe binary data.
The one thought I had as the discussions about similar characters are
resulting in culling words from the list, is that it only helps to validate
input, not help the user if it is incorrect.
For example, if both cat and eat were in the word list, and someone
wrote down eat, but later mis-translated it and put cat back into
translator, the result would be a checksum error; cat is a different
number, so the checksum would fail.
As it currently stands, cat would not be a valid word (eat is the real
word, and no other number is cat), so the translator can throw a
different error which is more helpful (i.e. 'cat' isn't a valid word
choice), but still doesn't get the user to the proper translation.
What about if the wordlist included those words that are so similar to
each other that we only kept one of them and had them all refer to the
same number? I propose the wordlist have the possibility of multiple words
on a single line, with the first word on the line being the primary or
real word to be used, with the other similar words be included so that a
translation program if it wanted to assist the user could fix their input
for them (verbosely or not), along the lines of 'cat' isn't a valid word
choice; assuming you meant 'eat', which is valid. You might still hit a
checksum error if that similar word is still the wrong word, but as it
stands now, I know you culled a bunch of words from the wordlist as too
similar, but if I want to try and help the user fix a bad input, I need to
write a translation program with a full english dictionary alongside the
BIP39 dictionary.
I'd be willing to create a pull request for such an update, but before I
delve into that, does this sound like a good idea? I could see it devolving
into a slippery slope if every number in the 2048 set had a dozen word
variations (misspellings, similar words, slang terms for the real word,
etc.) which could get confusing of how similar is similar enough to be
added as an alternate, and the standard would need to be clear that when
translating binary to words, you only use the main word for that row, not
any of the variations.
MidnightLightning
I've just pushed updated wordlist which is filtered to similar
characters taken from this matrix.
BIP39 now consider following character pairs as similar:
similar = (
('a', 'c'), ('a', 'e'), ('a', 'o'),
('b', 'd'), ('b', 'h'), ('b', 'p'), ('b', 'q'), ('b', 'r'),
('c', 'e'), ('c', 'g'), ('c', 'n'), ('c', 'o'), ('c', 'q'),
('c', 'u'),
('d', 'g'), ('d', 'h'), ('d', 'o'), ('d', 'p'), ('d', 'q'),
('e', 'f'), ('e', 'o'),
('f', 'i'), ('f', 'j'), ('f', 'l'), ('f', 'p'), ('f', 't'),
('g', 'j'), ('g', 'o'), ('g', 'p'), ('g', 'q'), ('g', 'y'),
('h', 'k'), ('h', 'l'), ('h', 'm'), ('h', 'n'), ('h', 'r'),
('i', 'j'), ('i', 'l'), ('i', 't'), ('i', 'y'),
('j', 'l'), ('j', 'p'), ('j', 'q'), ('j', 'y'),
('k', 'x'),
('l', 't'),
('m', 'n'), ('m', 'w'),
('n', 'u'), ('n', 'z'),
('o', 'p'), ('o', 'q'), ('o', 'u'), ('o', 'v'),
('p', 'q'), ('p', 'r'),
('q', 'y'),
('s', 'z'),
('u', 'v'), ('u', 'w'), ('u', 'y'),
('v', 'w'), ('v', 'y')
)
Feel free to review and comment current wordlist, but I think we're
slowly moving forward final list.
slush
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list
Hi Brooks,
I've been already thinking about eat - cat typing mistake. Actually there
may be simplier solution than having wordlist with duplicated words.
Because there's already a mapping of similar characters in the source code
(currently only in unit test, but it can be moved), when user type a word
which isn't in wordlist, application may try to use such mapping to find a
combination which actually is in the mapping. This may be disambiguous in
some cases, but giving a choice between few words may be better than hard
fail. And it is actually quite easy to implement. Although I think
application can do such smart suggestions and help user to recover badly
written mnemonic, I don't think it is necessary to standardize such method
directly into BIP. It may or may not be implemented by developers and it is
just nice to have feature.
Example:
user type ear, but it isn't in wordlist.
Regards the mapping,
E is similar to A, C, F, O
A is similar to E, C, O
R is similar to B, P, H
So application can calculate combinations of possible characters:
a) when app consider than the the user mistyped only one character
AAR, CAR, FAR, OAR
EER, ECR, EOR
EAB, EAP, EAH
b) when app consider than user maybe mistyped more characters, it may do
full combination matrix
AEB, ACB, AOB, ... OEH, OCH, OOH
and then ask user to select only these combinations which are actually
presented in the wordlist. In this particular case it may be only CAR or
FAR (both cannot be in the wordlist because of rules in similarity).
Marek
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Brooks Boyd bo...@midnightdesign.ws wrote:
I was inspired to join the mailing list to comment on some of these
discussions about BIP39, which I think will have great use in the Bitcoin
community and outside it as a way to transcribe binary data.
The one thought I had as the discussions about similar characters are
resulting in culling words from the list, is that it only helps to validate
input, not help the user if it is incorrect.
For example, if both cat and eat were in the word list, and someone
wrote down eat, but later mis-translated it and put cat back into
translator, the result would be a checksum error; cat is a different
number, so the checksum would fail.
As it currently stands, cat would not be a valid word (eat is the real
word, and no other number is cat), so the translator can throw a
different error which is more helpful (i.e. 'cat' isn't a valid word
choice), but still doesn't get the user to the proper translation.
What about if the wordlist included those words that are so similar to
each other that we only kept one of them and had them all refer to the
same number? I propose the wordlist have the possibility of multiple words
on a single line, with the first word on the line being the primary or
real word to be used, with the other similar words be included so that a
translation program if it wanted to assist the user could fix their input
for them (verbosely or not), along the lines of 'cat' isn't a valid word
choice; assuming you meant 'eat', which is valid. You might still hit a
checksum error if that similar word is still the wrong word, but as it
stands now, I know you culled a bunch of words from the wordlist as too
similar, but if I want to try and help the user fix a bad input, I need to
write a translation program with a full english dictionary alongside the
BIP39 dictionary.
I'd be willing to create a pull request for such an update, but before I
delve into that, does this sound like a good idea? I could see it devolving
into a slippery slope if every number in the 2048 set had a dozen word
variations (misspellings, similar words, slang terms for the real word,
etc.) which could get confusing of how similar is similar enough to be
added as an alternate, and the standard would need to be clear that when
translating binary to words, you only use the main word for that row, not
any of the variations.
MidnightLightning
I've just pushed updated wordlist which is filtered to similar
characters taken from this matrix.
BIP39 now consider following character pairs as similar:
similar = (
('a', 'c'), ('a', 'e'), ('a', 'o'),
('b', 'd'), ('b', 'h'), ('b', 'p'), ('b', 'q'), ('b', 'r'),
('c', 'e'), ('c', 'g'), ('c', 'n'), ('c', 'o'), ('c', 'q'),
('c', 'u'),
('d', 'g'), ('d', 'h'), ('d', 'o'), ('d', 'p'), ('d', 'q'),
('e', 'f'), ('e', 'o'),
('f', 'i'), ('f', 'j'), ('f', 'l'), ('f', 'p'), ('f', 't'),
('g', 'j'), ('g', 'o'), ('g', 'p'), ('g', 'q'), ('g', 'y'),
('h', 'k'), ('h', 'l'), ('h', 'm'), ('h', 'n'), ('h', 'r'),
('i', 'j'), ('i', 'l'), ('i', 't'), ('i', 'y'),
('j', 'l'), ('j', 'p'), ('j', 'q'), ('j', 'y'),
('k', 'x'),
('l', 't'),
('m', 'n'), ('m', 'w'),
('n', 'u'), ('n', 'z'),
('o',
Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list
I've just pushed updated wordlist which is filtered to similar characters
taken from this matrix.
BIP39 now consider following character pairs as similar:
similar = (
('a', 'c'), ('a', 'e'), ('a', 'o'),
('b', 'd'), ('b', 'h'), ('b', 'p'), ('b', 'q'), ('b', 'r'),
('c', 'e'), ('c', 'g'), ('c', 'n'), ('c', 'o'), ('c', 'q'),
('c', 'u'),
('d', 'g'), ('d', 'h'), ('d', 'o'), ('d', 'p'), ('d', 'q'),
('e', 'f'), ('e', 'o'),
('f', 'i'), ('f', 'j'), ('f', 'l'), ('f', 'p'), ('f', 't'),
('g', 'j'), ('g', 'o'), ('g', 'p'), ('g', 'q'), ('g', 'y'),
('h', 'k'), ('h', 'l'), ('h', 'm'), ('h', 'n'), ('h', 'r'),
('i', 'j'), ('i', 'l'), ('i', 't'), ('i', 'y'),
('j', 'l'), ('j', 'p'), ('j', 'q'), ('j', 'y'),
('k', 'x'),
('l', 't'),
('m', 'n'), ('m', 'w'),
('n', 'u'), ('n', 'z'),
('o', 'p'), ('o', 'q'), ('o', 'u'), ('o', 'v'),
('p', 'q'), ('p', 'r'),
('q', 'y'),
('s', 'z'),
('u', 'v'), ('u', 'w'), ('u', 'y'),
('v', 'w'), ('v', 'y')
)
Feel free to review and comment current wordlist, but I think we're slowly
moving forward final list.
slush
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
some fairly old wordlist solver code of mine:
https://people.xiph.org/~greg/wordlist.visual.py
it has a 52x52 letter visual similarity matrix in it (along with a
citation)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, jan jan.mare...@gmail.com wrote:
The words 'public', 'private' and 'secret' could be confusing when
encoding public and private keys. eg. a private key that begins with
the word 'public'.
I think avoiding words that could look similar when written down would
be a good idea aswell. I searched for words that only differ by the
letters c e, g y, u v and found the following:
car ear
cat eat
gear year
value valve
Other combinations could potentially be problematic depending on the
handwriting style: ft, ao, ij, vy, possibly even lt and il?
I've included the search utility I used below.
#include stdbool.h
#include string.h
#include stdio.h
char *similar_char_pairs[] = { ce, gy, uv, NULL };
bool is_similar_char(char c1, char c2)
{
char **pairs = similar_char_pairs;
do {
char *p = *pairs;
if ((c1 == p[0] c2 == p[1]) ||
(c1 == p[1] c2 == p[0]))
return true;
} while (*++pairs);
return false;
}
bool print_words_if_similar(char *word1, char *word2)
{
/* reject words of different lengths */
if (strlen(word1) != strlen(word2))
return false;
size_t i, similarcount = 0;
for (i = 0; i strlen(word1); i++) {
/* skip identical letters */
if (word1[i] == word2[i])
continue;
/* reject words that don't match */
if (is_similar_char(word1[i], word2[i]) == false)
return false;
similarcount++;
}
/* reject words with more than 1 different letter */
//if (similarcount 1)
// return false;
printf(%s %s\n, word1, word2);
return true;
}
int main(void)
{
/* english.txt is assumed to exist in the working directory
download from:
https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/mnemonic/wordlist/english.txt*/
FILE* f = fopen(english.txt, r);
if (!f) {
fprintf(stderr, failed to open english.txt\n);
return 1;
}
/* read in word list, assumes one word per line */
#define MAXWORD 16
char wordlist[2048][MAXWORD];
int word = 0;
while (fgets(wordlist[word], MAXWORD, f)) {
/* strip trailing whitespace, assumes no leading whitespace */
char *ch = strpbrk(wordlist[word], \n\t);
if (ch)
*ch = '\0';
word++;
}
if (word != 2048) {
fprintf(stderr, word list incorrect length\n);
return 1;
}
/* check each word for similarity against every other word */
int i, j, count = 0;
for (i = 0; i 2048; i++) {
for (j = i+1; j 2048; j++) {
if (print_words_if_similar(wordlist[i], wordlist[j]))
count++;
}
}
printf(%d matches\n, count);
return 0;
}
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list
I think this is a good idea; I just pushed new unit test test_similarity() to github which finds such similar words. Right now it identifies ~90 similar pairs in current wordlist, I'll update wordlist tomorrow to pass this test. slush On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM, jan jan.mare...@gmail.com wrote: I think avoiding words that could look similar when written down would be a good idea aswell. I searched for words that only differ by the letters c e, g y, u v and found the following: car ear cat eat gear year value valve Other combinations could potentially be problematic depending on the handwriting style: ft, ao, ij, vy, possibly even lt and il? -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
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On 19/10/13 01:58, Gregory Maxwell wrote: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/wordlist.visual.py I've included the search utility I used below. Yeah, there are lots of tools on the Internet. Posting links to them is not helping. Sending pull requests with particular changesets with explanation is. Well, or rather was. I think we are past the point where it was wise to introduce changes to the word list ... (especially when 50 people have 51 different opinions on this topic) -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol Rusnak st...@gk2.sk -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
[Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list
The words 'public', 'private' and 'secret' could be confusing when
encoding public and private keys. eg. a private key that begins with
the word 'public'.
I think avoiding words that could look similar when written down would
be a good idea aswell. I searched for words that only differ by the
letters c e, g y, u v and found the following:
car ear
cat eat
gear year
value valve
Other combinations could potentially be problematic depending on the
handwriting style: ft, ao, ij, vy, possibly even lt and il?
I've included the search utility I used below.
#include stdbool.h
#include string.h
#include stdio.h
char *similar_char_pairs[] = { ce, gy, uv, NULL };
bool is_similar_char(char c1, char c2)
{
char **pairs = similar_char_pairs;
do {
char *p = *pairs;
if ((c1 == p[0] c2 == p[1]) ||
(c1 == p[1] c2 == p[0]))
return true;
} while (*++pairs);
return false;
}
bool print_words_if_similar(char *word1, char *word2)
{
/* reject words of different lengths */
if (strlen(word1) != strlen(word2))
return false;
size_t i, similarcount = 0;
for (i = 0; i strlen(word1); i++) {
/* skip identical letters */
if (word1[i] == word2[i])
continue;
/* reject words that don't match */
if (is_similar_char(word1[i], word2[i]) == false)
return false;
similarcount++;
}
/* reject words with more than 1 different letter */
//if (similarcount 1)
// return false;
printf(%s %s\n, word1, word2);
return true;
}
int main(void)
{
/* english.txt is assumed to exist in the working directory
download from:
https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic/blob/master/mnemonic/wordlist/english.txt
*/
FILE* f = fopen(english.txt, r);
if (!f) {
fprintf(stderr, failed to open english.txt\n);
return 1;
}
/* read in word list, assumes one word per line */
#define MAXWORD 16
char wordlist[2048][MAXWORD];
int word = 0;
while (fgets(wordlist[word], MAXWORD, f)) {
/* strip trailing whitespace, assumes no leading whitespace */
char *ch = strpbrk(wordlist[word], \n\t);
if (ch)
*ch = '\0';
word++;
}
if (word != 2048) {
fprintf(stderr, word list incorrect length\n);
return 1;
}
/* check each word for similarity against every other word */
int i, j, count = 0;
for (i = 0; i 2048; i++) {
for (j = i+1; j 2048; j++) {
if (print_words_if_similar(wordlist[i], wordlist[j]))
count++;
}
}
printf(%d matches\n, count);
return 0;
}
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