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Transform an old copay Spanish mnemonic (with the composed unicode bug) into a seed
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import sys | |
import hashlib | |
import unicodedata | |
if len(sys.argv) != 2: | |
print('Usage: python3 old-copay-spanish-mnemonic-to-seed.py "here go the mnemonic words"') | |
exit(1) | |
mnemonic = sys.argv[1] | |
composed = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', mnemonic).encode('utf-8') | |
passphrase = 'mnemonic'.encode('utf-8') | |
stretched = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac('sha512', composed, passphrase, 2048) | |
seed = stretched[:64] | |
print('seed: ' + seed.hex()) |
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Run with:
python3 old-copay-spanish-mnemonic-to-seed.py "here go the mnemonic words"