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A 12 words BIP39 phrase is 128 bits of entropy. Is this enough? Depends on the algorithm.

In either case, you'd absolutely not want to reuse the phrase. AFAIK BIP-32 does not have security guarantees such that you can't find the seed from a set of private keys.



Oh, very interesting. I hadn't considered that a quantum-resistant private key might have its security depend on a large amount of input randomness.




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