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kirkins/phrase-keys.sh

Created February 14, 2019 16:51
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Generate private bitcoin keys from 15 word combinations of words, input number of keys to create
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phrase-keys.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# first input should be number of private keys to generate
for ((i=1;i<=$1;i++));
do
WORDS=15; LC_ALL=C grep -x '[a-z]*' /usr/share/dict/words \
| shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom -n ${WORDS} | paste -sd " " \
| sha256sum | cut -f 1 -d " "
done
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