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Title: Heartbleed Bug and Password Recovery? Post by: 2cbeeee on December 25, 2014, 04:41:52 AM I recently purchased an amount of bitcoin locally through libertyX, and was able to successfully transfer my new btc into my bitcoin wallet. Now this wallet is a few months old and I have unfortunately lost my passphrase, which I honestly don't remember setting in the first place. I've tried every combination of usual passwords and things that I would likely use, to no avail. I still have on my computer a copy of Bitcoin-Qt 0.9.0, and in hearing of the Heartbleed Bug associated with it, was wondering if there would be a possibility to use the exploit to recover my password? Bruteforceing the wallet could take months or even longer, so I was trying to postulate a different method of recovery. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Title: Re: Heartbleed Bug and Password Recovery? Post by: Newar on December 25, 2014, 07:34:06 AM It was commented on here: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2014-04-11-heartbleed Is your expected balance still there? I would think a hacker (if they could have) would have lifted all your coins instead of putting a password on your wallet? Why do you still use 0.9.0? Title: Re: Heartbleed Bug and Password Recovery? Post by: chanz on December 25, 2014, 10:31:44 AM If you have a backup of your wallet prior to performing the encryption step, then any coins from that wallet that still have not been spent can be recovered.
Otherwise, without that passphase to open the wallet you cant get to the private keys inside the wallet, and thus cannot spend those funds. Regarding Heartbleed Bug it's highly unlikely that you can do anything to recover them. |