Just mucking around with stuff and want to know why does this 12 word seed work with the last word being not a word and only a single letter.
Lets see who can get the correct letter first to open the wallet and see if there are 100 bitcoins inside;-)
honor ketchup wall cake dismiss poor quietly coin take luxury ink ....... (12th one a single letter not a word)
Lets see who can get the correct letter first to open the wallet and see if there are 100 bitcoins inside;-)
honor ketchup wall cake dismiss poor quietly coin take luxury ink ....... (12th one a single letter not a word)
honor, poor, quietly, take and ink are neither part of the BIP39 word list nor of the wordlist electrum uses.
It is really weird how electrum does generate a wallet (both, as electrum AND BIP39 wallet) with 5 words not being in the dictionary and the last word actually being 'k'. This indeed sounds like a bug.
OP, how did you find out about this?
If you want to do it on purpose then here's how. It is possible to replace the electrum dictionary with your own custom words. The key point is that the seed you generate with your custom dictionary is valid in any electrum installation even ones with the default dictionary. So create your own custom dictionary and include single letter "words" a..z and then use the make_seed cli command to generate seeds until you get one with a letter "word" in it.
Examples:
any agent cupboard figure taxi error skill tomato rely lawsuit r grief
carbon dial trumpet want ask slam rebuild rival n essay amused mushroom
The dictionary is in /usr/lib/python3/site-packages/electrum/wordlist . You can just appened a..z and 1...9 for instance to the default dictionary.
I am no longer certain that this should be classified as a bug. It's useful for people who make their own dictionaries
