{"categories":[{"label":"Cryptography","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/security-cryptography"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Generates mnemonic word sequences and converts them to cryptographic seeds following the Bitcoin standard for deterministic wallet creation.","skillfed_tags":["cryptocurrency","wallet-generation"],"use_cases":["Generate a new mnemonic seed phrase for a cryptocurrency wallet during account creation.","Convert an existing mnemonic word list into a binary seed for wallet key derivation.","Recover wallet keys from a known mnemonic phrase by regenerating its seed with an optional passphrase.","Validate a user-provided mnemonic against the word list and recover its original entropy.","Support multilingual wallet interfaces by generating or validating mnemonics in supported languages."],"what_it_does":"mnemonic is a reference implementation of the Bitcoin standard for encoding entropy into human-readable word sequences. It generates mnemonic phrases (word lists) from random entropy and converts them into cryptographic seeds suitable for deterministic wallet key generation. The package supports multiple languages including English, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Czech, and Portuguese, and allows custom word lists.\n\nThe library has no runtime dependencies and is designed as a focused, single-purpose tool: take entropy or a word list, validate it, and produce a seed. It's commonly used in cryptocurrency wallet implementations, hardware wallet firmware, and key management tools. The implementation is stable but dormant, with the last release on 2024-01-05.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need mnemonic generation or validation in a Python project. The package is stable, dependency-free, and implements a well-defined standard. However, dormant maintenance (no updates in 952 days) means no active support for bugs or security issues\u2014acceptable for a narrow, mature specification but worth noting if you require ongoing maintenance."},"id":"mnemonic","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mnemonic","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mnemonic.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/mnemonic/"},"maintenance":{"status":"dormant"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2024-01-05","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"mnemonic","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Implementation of Bitcoin BIP-0039"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":834827,"position":4936,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.21"}