From 35ffaba3603a02e58f4b8a71534512456daef1c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Childs Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:26:01 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix false positive rate --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d953693..c16785c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ I would suggest using a three byte constant of `0xC2FE58` plus a one byte versio This has the following benefits: - All versioned seeds will start with the two words `seed version` so they are humanly recognisable. -- The false positive rate is reduced to 0.00000596%. +- The false positive rate is reduced to 0.00000006%. - Adding new version numbers doesn't increase false positive rate. - BIP39 entropy increases in intervals of 32 bits and the version constant + data take up exactly 32 bits. This allows us to just shift the word length for a given amount of entropy.