BIPs bitcoin improvement proposals

85 - Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains

BIP: 85 source Layer: Applications Title: Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains Author: Ethan Kosakovsky Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0085 Status: Draft Type: Informational Created: 2020-03-20 License: BSD-2-Clause OPL Table of ContentsAbstractDefinitionsMotivationSpecificationTest vectorsTest case 1Test case 2BIP85-DRNGTest VectorsReference ImplementationOther ImplementationsApplicationsBIP3912 English words18 English words24 English wordsHD-Seed WIFXPRVHEXPWD BASE64PWD BASE85RSARSA GPGBackwards CompatibilityDiscussionAcknowledgementsReferencesFootnotesCopyright Abstract "One Seed to rule them all, One Key to find them, One Path to bring them all, And in cryptography bind them." It is not possible to maintain one single (mnemonic) seed backup for all keychains used across various wallets because there are a variety of incompatible standards. Sharing of seeds across multiple wallets...