Wednesday, 10 February 2016
There’s really no such thing as security, given wherever a wall is built there’s someone trying, for ill or for fun, to climb right over it. Now a team of security researchers has managed to create an algorithm that quickly cracks the ‘brain wallet’, which was supposed to be a solution for Bitcoin owners to access their stash using a password in place of a random private key number. Given that Bitcoin users have gone to the trouble of getting on board with this less-traceable currency, you might have thought the passwords would be, well, good. Think again. Here’s some of the passwords the team…
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