should english.txt be tested against its hash?

[petjal]

In or near

bitcoin-bash-tools/bx.sh

Line 431 in a5dac22

elif ! wc -w "$wordlist_file" |grep -q '^2048 '

should english.txt be tested against its hash, like

$ sha256sum english.txt
2f5eed53a4727b4bf8880d8f3f199efc90e58503646d9ff8eff3a2ed3b24dbda  english.txt

instead of just wc -w?

[grondilu]

As I understand it, the content of the word list is not critical, as the list itself is not necessary for retrieval of the seed. The list is necessary to produce the twelve words, but only the twelve words are necessary to produce the seed.

I am currently testing the number of words as a very naive integrity check and because that exact number of words is required for the correct execution of the algorithm. If I were to improve on it, I would perhaps check that all the words are unique in the file.

But a full integrity check does not seem necessary to me.