boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkResearchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoinarstechnica.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareIrregularChore@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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.
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.