Hidden As Colors, Crypto Seed Phrases Could Be Hiding In Plain Sight, Says Developer

Speaking to Cointelegraph, Entero Positivo argued that typical methods of seed phrase storage are too obvious, so he devised a way to hide a crypto wallet in plain sight.

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A new tool called "BIP39 Colors" turns bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto wallet seed expressions into colors, giving users a potentially new way to keep their funds in cold storage.

The developer, known only as Entero Positivo (Spanish for "positive integer"), released BIP39 Colors on June 25, which translates a 12- or 24-word portfolio seed sentence into a unassuming and seemingly random color chart.< /p>

Speaking to Cointelegraph, Positivo said it created the tool because keyphrases will always need to be saved somewhere physically and someone "seeing something with 12 or 24 words written down is very obvious [...] A lot of people know what that means.”

"Where and how do I store my words? Written on paper? On a titanium plate? What if a thief thoroughly searches my house and finds the paper with 12 words written on it?" he says.

BIP39 Colors translates a BIP39 mnemonic into colors and vice versa.

Check out the tool: https://t.co/IGrq8LlCXu

- This obscures your mnemonic phrase- You can save each color independently without any commands (at home, in css files, png images, ...)- Color codes are… pic.twitter.com/Td2sm3igVt

— Entero Positivo (@EnteroPositivo) June 25, 2023

Explaining how it works, Positivo said the tool converts BIP39 words — the long list of 2,048 words used to create seed phrases — into either eight or 16 colors alongside their hex codes depending on whether a sentence of 12 or 24 words is used.