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Added comment: POSIX shell reserved words

Greg Tonoski 2023-09-14 11:59:18 +02:00
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# Separation of concerns: key generation technique
Key generation techniques may vary and co-exist. They are not dependent on Bitcoin protocol and vice-versa. While there are benefits of interoperability (e.g. standardized format of keys), the key generation techniques (e.g. PBKDF2, "The iteration count is set to 2048", source of randomness) may be treated separately and individually.
# Robustness: POSIX shell reserved words are used in the BIP39 wordlist
Shells may interpret some words as reserved ones if not quoted, e.g. time, then, select, until.