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77 Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail.com>
88 Sean Bowe <ewillbefull@gmail.com>
9- Comments-Summary: Unanimously Discourage for implementation
10- Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0039
119 Status: Deployed
1210 Type: Specification
1311 Assigned: 2013-09-10
@@ -138,6 +136,24 @@ Also see https://github.com/bip32JP/bip32JP.github.io/blob/master/test_JP_BIP39.
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139137(Japanese wordlist test with heavily normalized symbols as passphrase)
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139+ ==Shortcomings ==
140+
141+ Some shortcomings have been identified with this proposal:
142+
143+ * Generated seed depends on the wordlist used for the mnemonic. Because
144+ the "mnemonic to seed" process uses the mnemonic sentence directly
145+ rather than the original entropy, translating the mnemonic to a
146+ different wordlist necessary creates a completely different seed.
147+
148+ * No versioning scheme. When originally introduced, there was no way to
149+ distinguish the address format that should be used for a BIP-0039 key.
150+ This is now largely mitigated by using descriptor wallets (BIP-0380)
151+ in addition to a seed however.
152+
153+ The [SLIP-0039](https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0039.md)
154+ scheme addresses the wordlist dependency issue by standardizing on a
155+ single wordlist.
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141157==Reference Implementation ==
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143159Reference implementation including wordlists is available from
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