The Meat of Mnemonics: How the Sausage is Made

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Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read

Mnemonic seed phrases are a vital cryptographic security feature with various implementations, notably hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets like Ledger or Trezor where many of us keep our crypto. But…what is a mnemonic phrase, and why do we trust it to keep our funds out of the hands of unscrupulous predators roaming the ether?

Google defines mnemonics as “the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory.”

In a way, it’s like sausage, really. To fully understand mnemonics, we first need to understand its main ingredients. Let’s get cooking!

Cryptography Ingredients

I. Cryptographic Hash Functions

Some of the most common hash protocols used today include MD5 and SHA-1. If SHA sounds familiar, it’s because Satoshi designed Bitcoin using SHA-256.

II. Checksums

III. Assembly

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