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May 08, 2013, 06:30:56 AM
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Recovering bitcoin private keys possible or it is a fake post ?
http://www.nilsschneider.net/2013/01/28/recovering-bitcoin-private-keys.html

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May 08, 2013, 06:40:24 AM
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Recovering bitcoin private keys possible or it is a fake post ?
http://www.nilsschneider.net/2013/01/28/recovering-bitcoin-private-keys.html

Interesting... the relevant part is:

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Why did this work? ECDSA requires a random number for each signature. If this random number is ever used twice with the same private key it can be recovered. This transaction was generated by a hardware bitcoin wallet using a pseudo-random number generator that was returning the same “random” number every time.

This is a known implementation issue, and why people make a big deal out of random sources and entropy.  Seems there is a flawed implementation floating around?  I wonder what this hardware wallet is exactly. 

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May 08, 2013, 07:21:03 AM
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If they used old OpenSSL in Debian for generating random numbers, it's possible:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Predictable_random_number_generator_discovered_in_the_Debian_version_of_OpenSSL

LOL
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