Security Researchers Plan Brute Force Attack On Bitcoin Brainwallet

in #ripple2 years ago

The declaration despatched to Bitcoin Magazine describes how brute forcing could be the approach so one can permit individuals to crack the seed, saying

For this game, brute-forcing a bitcoin pockets manner locating the seed phrases and a passphrase. The goal fee is 10 BTC. You have one hundred tries at guessing each phrases and passphrase. Each strive prices 1 BTC. If you wager correctly, you win the prize; if not, you lose your money. You can preserve guessing till you run out of funds (this can manifest after one hundred guesses).

The declaration additionally mentions that if a person guesses your passphrase in a single strive and wins 10 BTC, they get a further 10 BTC for his or her trouble.