Write own BIP39 implementation

[jblachly]

As suggested in the code base:

https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/blob/adf7d0c126aab471d6c52cb3129c065c5c2a2063/src/keys/bip39.rs#L14-L17

I also recommend writing own BIP39 implementation.

In issue #399, BDK transitioned from tiny-bip39 to rust-bip39, however, the latter package (which BDK now depends on) appears to be unmaintained or poorly maintained, with PRs and issues ignored for about a year.

https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bip39

At a minimum, BIP39 wordlists, and words -> entropy -> seed generation would be valuable.

[notmandatory]

@jblachly I think it's too late to add this as a 2022 summer of bitcoin project, but I'll tag it as a good first issue for someone new.

[jblachly]

Thanks; accidentally started with that template (there was no other feature request template) and didn't realize it would add an issue tag.

[notmandatory]

No problem, it's on my todo list to add an enhancement issue template. 😅

[violet360]

Hey, guys !! I am a bitcoin enthusiast and an SoB participant who recently started with RUST and new to this project as well, I was looking for cool rust issues to work on so that I can improve my understanding and this one really caught my attention, I would love to work on this project.

[Eunoia1729]

Hi @violet360! I've been working on this since past few days. Hope we can review/discuss if I'm going in the right direction. I can make a draft PR.

[violet360]

Ok cool, for sure :)

[evanlinjin]

@violet360 @Eunoia1729 How is progress on this issue so far?

[danielabrozzoni]

@Eunoia1729 are you stll working on this? :)

[Eunoia1729]

Sorry for the late response. I didnt progress much after that. Anyone interested can start with it, I'll be happy to join or help in any way.

[vladimirfomene]

Hello @danielabrozzoni, has this been worked on? Can I pick it up?

[danielabrozzoni]

Nobody that I know of, you can pick it up :)

[atalw]

Hey, sorry that I didn't update here but I started working on this earlier today. Should I continue? Perhaps we could work together?

[vladimirfomene]

@atalw, yes we can work on it together. Can I reach out to you over discord? What is your discord handle?

[atalw]

Awesome. It's atalw#3934.

[notmandatory]

I know we have @evanlinjin 's PR #644 in progress for this. But want to ask the question, since we already moved off of tiny-bip39 and we're using rust-bitcoin/rust-bip39 , does it make sense to create our own implementation? what features are we missing in rust-bip39 ? And if it's just a maintenance issue what needs to be updated and can we do PRs for those?

[jblachly]

And if it's just a maintenance issue what needs to be updated and can we do PRs for those?

The problem is that the maintainer of rust-bitcoin/rust-bip39 is unresponsive to PRs

[notmandatory]

If there are no technical reason against using rust-bitcoin/rust-bip39 then should we maintain and use a fork in the bitcoindevkit org? Then we can get PRs we need merged and upstream can still pull them in if/when they want.

[jblachly]

should we maintain and use a fork in the bitcoindevkit org?

Sounds reasonable; alternatively if anyone has personal connections to org owners of rust-bitcoin we could lobby for an additional person to get admin permissions to the repository as co-maintainer

[notmandatory]

@jblachly I'm going to close this issue as the rust-bitcoin/rust-bip39 crate seems to be back on track with new releases. Happy to reopen if you think more discussion is needed.