boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareumami_wasabi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoIt is luck(?) for him the password generator isn’t secure back then.
minus-squareIrregularChore@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThe password auto generated by his software wallet used the date/time as the “random” seed for the password, so knowing the rough date he created it they were able to get it to spit out the same password again. So not very secure at all.
It is luck(?) for him the password generator isn’t secure back then.
The password auto generated by his software wallet used the date/time as the “random” seed for the password, so knowing the rough date he created it they were able to get it to spit out the same password again. So not very secure at all.