Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from <marek@palatinus.cz>) id 1VYnD3-0004yW-7e for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:26:05 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-vc0-f170.google.com ([209.85.220.170]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1VYnD2-0000sw-2N for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:26:05 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f170.google.com with SMTP id hv10so70931vcb.1 for <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:25:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:cc:content-type; bh=2+7VnOqvg58dmrDaf3qwW0LWS4MAeFEvFohDC0Ll2l0=; b=i/ANminygjnDXyw7JRybL+0ZM7eobpGydPlME+R50uM5UxXB+Dgx/+tRzQltNsPurm bDFloE5voT4yImSka1IJLWayJ+mBy+7FF6URRmUfUDd0T8Oh1lHEELpJo5MsyuMwtRET h139udQqgSlro9ICYNXz1oa3JQYDxKkXN9XXXoTQ8DWJWbwqC6vbOH9yOscGwAHUhtQ/ 1LxiVDqz34j40ZPsn69LyfE7u8MuSHF2G0NXRfiFnQefCNXSdeljzfo2E0F7+LiVJRXD iOAaBeDRDf0wEP4JmfXzbFYgRSxkWeWjv6D/PgJfLunYqMGZUPJKRsqcLtUmezqxLad+ 5SUg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl5Js2ygwJyI6YnsWtfrXyR10v+OnCOmt1qL2OqO3iYkVtDAwNKPagRZki0cQyA+yx9MbNr X-Received: by 10.58.161.231 with SMTP id xv7mr16226457veb.2.1382489848033; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:57:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: marek@palatinus.cz Received: by 10.59.1.2 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:56:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87iowuuof9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87iowuuof9.fsf@gmail.com> From: slush <slush@centrum.cz> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:56:57 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hxBnr3JQNkos5PaAKxkNIm4Kzc8 Message-ID: <CAJna-Hh_MMfW3W4tKHnAL3xd8Pbvkv6MGfOArFfxGzwcjDis1w@mail.gmail.com> Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b6774724c4a7104e95e004c X-Spam-Score: 2.2 (++) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (slush[at]centrum.cz) 1.2 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message X-Headers-End: 1VYnD2-0000sw-2N Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: <bitcoin-development.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development>, <mailto:bitcoin-development-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development> List-Post: <mailto:bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net> List-Help: <mailto:bitcoin-development-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development>, <mailto:bitcoin-development-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:26:05 -0000 --047d7b6774724c4a7104e95e004c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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.marecek@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? > > --047d7b6774724c4a7104e95e004c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <div dir="ltr">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.<div> <br></div><div>slush<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM, jan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan.marecek@gmail.com" target="_blank">jan.marecek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> I think avoiding words that could look similar when written down would<br> be a good idea aswell. I searched for words that only differ by the<br> letters c & e, g & y, u & v and found the following:<br> <br> car ear<br> cat eat<br> gear year<br> value valve<br> <br> Other combinations could potentially be problematic depending on the<br> handwriting style: ft, ao, ij, vy, possibly even lt and il?<br> <br></blockquote></div></div></div></div> --047d7b6774724c4a7104e95e004c--