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Not OP, but it seems like Electrum maps the wallet seed to standard English words. The other thing that helps is that the redaction isn't complete. So what I w
by Cyph0n 8y ago
Not OP, but it seems like Electrum maps the wallet seed to standard English words. The other thing that helps is that the redaction isn't complete.
So what I would do is:
1. Estimate the possible locations of spaces (e.g., using OpenCV).
2. "Guess" certain letters based on what is visible above and below the black bar; these are your constraints.
3. Look up dictionary words that meet the constraints found in (2).
4. Loop through steps 1-3 to build a list of possible seeds.
5. Run these seed candidates through Electrum.
- btiown442 8y agoYes this is generally the idea. Didn't know about OpenCV though. Was a font-matching and trial and error by hand in MS Notepad + some scripts to help brute force the thing kind of solution... Turns out there are actually at least a couple dozen possible solutions based on what is visible so some small amount of information was lost through the redaction, but not tons.
- dempseye 8y agoYes, it's a monospace font. The start, end and pattern of visible ascenders behind the redaction, along with the word list in electrum would allow you to reduce the search space by a lot, I suppose.