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Note that entropy must not be stored
authorIan Coleman <coleman.ian@gmail.com>
Thu, 22 Dec 2016 04:41:36 +0000 (15:41 +1100)
committerIan Coleman <coleman.ian@gmail.com>
Thu, 22 Dec 2016 04:41:36 +0000 (15:41 +1100)
In response to
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                             random enough for the needs of this tool.
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+                        <strong><span data-translate>Do not store entropy.</span></strong>
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+                    <p>
+                        <span data-translate>Storing entropy (such as keeping a deck of cards in a specific shuffled order) is unreliable compared to storing a mnemonic.</span>
+                        <span data-translate>Instead of storing entropy, store the mnemonic generated from the entropy.</span>
+                        <span data-translate-html><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Physical" target="_blank">Steganography</a> may be beneficial when storing the mnemonic.</span>
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                             The random mnemonic generator on this page uses a