When memorized, bip-39 mnemonic wallets are resistant to invasive searches. Good quality large size entropy is key to secure bitcoin or other cryptoassets. Those are very hard to memorize and recall later with a high degree of confidence.
Argon BGW is made for generating bip-39 mnemonic wallets from the SHA256 hash of an ubiquitous high quality entropy source like a camera captured picture file, and a moderately strong passphrase that is easier to remember trading passphrase strenght for extreme computational cost.
WARNING: The file used as entropy base needs to be the same bit by bit to generate the same mnemonic! Many web services will alter image files uploaded to them routinely, resizing them, or removing metadata. Such actions will completely change the SHA256 fingerprint of the file!
The 24 word mnemonic seed backup is the only feasible way to restore the wallet and recover assets in case the file or the passphrase is lost!
The goal was, that generating the mnemonic wallet from entropy source and passphrase should take in the ballpark of 1 hour. For this purpose the following Argon2id parameters were choosen:
- Message: File hash (lowercase)
- Salt: Passphrase (lowercase)
- Parallelism Factor: 1
- Memory Cost (MB): 1024
- Iterations: 360
- Output Length: 32 bytes (256 bits)
- Download the argon-bwg offline static webpage from github!
- Choose a file, like a picture you took as the main entropy source!
- Choose a passphrase or random generate 6 words and memorize them!
- Run argon-bwg under Tails or other live os offline!
- Select the file, or manually enter the SHA256 hash!
- Enter the passphrase next!
- Press "Generate"! It will take a while, on an average PC about an hour.
- Finally it displays 12/24 word Mnemonic Wallet.
- Note down your words and keep them secure!
- Enter your 12/24 words into a hardware or software wallet of your choosing, to receive and spend!
Repository: https://github.com/moonsettler/argon2-browser-antelle/commit/d73916b8efad2ef47140a52acd48b166a4ba97bf
Origin: https://github.com/antelle/argon2-browser/tree/d73916b8efad2ef47140a52acd48b166a4ba97bf
| File | SHA256 | State |
|---|---|---|
| /docs/dist/Argon2.js | 44b9570a777e12be6266e8705a927d5c67b6e6d333e4a9f10d4350024173338e | Unchanged |
| /docs/dist/Argon2.wasm | 71c9ffc4214ba0e210ce8bc385ce35d465d89d3b24b777338226d001e508929f | Unchanged |
| /lib/Argon2.js | 48dac9d7942e9c284cc4f76e32a8e653602304dfe6cf5c2189adb187a8f6d77f | Changed |
Since node is not used, the wasm file location needed to be updated:
Unchanged /lib/Argon2.js
const wasmPath =
global.argon2WasmPath ||
'node_modules/argon2-browser/dist/argon2.wasm';Changed /lib/Argon2.js
const wasmPath =
global.argon2WasmPath ||
'../dist/argon2.wasm';Repository: https://github.com/moonsettler/bip39-iancoleman/tree/e2fdc5b9420fe45a255776f0caa6df8b0baf4a2c
Origin: https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39/tree/e2fdc5b9420fe45a255776f0caa6df8b0baf4a2c
| File | SHA256 | State |
|---|---|---|
| /src/js/sjcl-bip39.js | c86ce24dc5ca9cff01acad425ceec34480776d8dd5918c0e837bb7bf09957eed | Unchanged |
| /src/js/jsbip39.js | f2c978ca6366f0d0373f08a74795b94b4f24eda3792dbcdbf2664e7db9939846 | Unchanged |
| /src/js/jsbip39.js | f068804e78f724b52f6a8255ccf18ff946e69d225fbc1dfabb96071a7db69de6 | Changed |
| /src/js/wordlist_english.js | dc15bb8884d53e589c3f3b37c8e369b16e307690038b6ad473f5c9503105b285 | Unchanged |
Since random mnemonic generation is not used, and it would bring in several additional dependencies the following lines were altered in jsbip39.js:
Unchanged jsbip39.js
var Mnemonic = function(language) {
var DOM = {};
DOM.entropyContainer = $(".entropy-container");
PBKDF2_ROUNDS = DOM.entropyContainer.find(".pbkdf2-rounds").val();
var RADIX = 2048;Changed jsbip39.js
var Mnemonic = function(language) {
PBKDF2_ROUNDS = 2048;
var RADIX = 2048;