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Added PBKDF2 as Described in BIP39

Mar 12, 2015 • Ryan X. Charles

1.03 Key Storage aspect was expanded to allow for Password-Based Key Derivation as an alternative to storing the key in an encrypted state. With Password-Based Key Derivation, the seed can be stored unencrypted as the password used to derive the key from the seed would accomplish the same as a passworded encryption layer on top of the seed.

References

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
  • https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

Contributor(s)

  • Ryan X. Charles, BitGo
  • CSAGCR

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