Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin
by zwily on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:03PM
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That's how they work - the PIN decrypts the encrypted seed key. However, after decryption, the seed key ("recovery key") is kept around in memory in order to actually be able to sign transactions/etc.
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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin
by Scoundreller on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:15PM
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There are a few methods in which they could avoid keeping direct plaintext entries in memory that are difficult to extract without knowing the ROM code.