From 8d639fd794d196446dd0cbf190d56f347dbee1c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slush0 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:31:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] PBKDF2 uses 2048 rounds --- bip-0039.mediawiki | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/bip-0039.mediawiki b/bip-0039.mediawiki index 679572b5..aa2c0b3a 100644 --- a/bip-0039.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0039.mediawiki @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ an empty string "" is used instead. To create binary seed from mnemonic, we use PBKDF2 function with mnemonic sentence (in UTF-8) used as a password and string "mnemonic" + passphrase (again in UTF-8) -used as a salt. Iteration count is set to 4096 and HMAC-SHA512 is used as a pseudo- +used as a salt. Iteration count is set to 2048 and HMAC-SHA512 is used as a pseudo- random function. Desired length of the derived key is 512 bits (= 64 bytes). This seed can be later used to generate deterministic wallets using BIP-0032 or