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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by tptacek on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @12:01AM (#15591010)
From the Trezor MCU source code on Github, it looks like I was right, and the PIN check is literally a string comparison.
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Re:‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin by zwily on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @12:25PM (#15594417)
Yeah, I don't know why they do that. I was just responding to the decrypted key being stored in memory.
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