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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by ur-whale on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:55AM (#22776692)
Any reason why a dictionary based attack wasn't tried first?

Or did your client remember selecting something really hard in the first place?

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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by metaweta on Saturday April 04, 2020 @10:56AM (#22778560)
Yeah, he knew it was a long passphrase.
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