[Cryptography] Another Bitcoin issue (maybe)

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Feb 16 18:06:23 EST 2014


On 2014-02-15 02:23, Jeffrey I Schiller wrote:
> someone (probably more then one someone) has built a lookup table of
> all bitcoin addresses that result of a decent password
> dictionary. They are watching the transaction chain in real time and
> making off with coin when they find a match. Pretty cool, and scary.
>
> So bitcoin is under constant attack. Of course what doesn't kill you,
> makes you stronger. Hmmm. Does that apply to crypto?

Yes, does apply to crypto.



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