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[Suggestion] Preserve spaces in mnemonic passphrase

Open t-m-w opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

The RFC states,

The mnemonic is displayed to the user and the user is asked to store a copy in a secure place. For convenient reasons the mnemonic can be displayed with whitespaces, but the string for encrypting/decrypting must have no whitespaces and be lowercase.

It seems like keeping the spaces part of the passphrase would simplify its (re-)display and consistency across components. What is the justification for removing them? It seems like this would make more sense to do if each word was equal length.

t-m-w avatar Jun 06 '19 16:06 t-m-w