Re:Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys an...
by scintill76 on Saturday April 15, 2017 @05:16PM
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I believe there was a time when blockchain.info's Android wallet generated keys from Apache's 301 redirect HTML fetched over HTTP[1].
I think there's also a lesson about idiot-proofing APIs. With the benefit of this in hindsight, I might instead return an invalid, non-HTTP response that blows up every major HTTP client internally, so that it's impossible for the API consumer code to happily truck along interpreting a non-200 response body as if it's valid random data.
I think there's also a lesson about idiot-proofing APIs. With the benefit of this in hindsight, I might instead return an invalid, non-HTTP response that blows up every major HTTP client internally, so that it's impossible for the API consumer code to happily truck along interpreting a non-200 response body as if it's valid random data.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37nlg1/i_was_the_g...