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Re:Show HN: A Story-Based Brainwallet by FatalLogic on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:13PM (#30948287)
Using a generated story to assist memory is an interesting idea. (Although I guess anyone imaginative could make up their own story from a normal seed phrase, without using a generator like this)

This method could be used for any kind of password, not only cryptocurrency things.

It's a proof of concept, so it's probably not necessary to say that this needs to be available as an offline, open source program

I think there are some probable issues with decoding the story to reproduce the secret. For example if the story begins "In Florida I saw a Clever Cosmonaut run in a Garden". Then I might remember Astronaut instead of Cosmonaut, Park instead of Garden, or Smart instead of Clever

Carefully choosing the words in the wordlist would help avoid such ambiguities

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