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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by cphoton on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:07AM (#6508288)
Can't they just use an old version of bitcoin and use the timing attack to find the passphrase?

EDIT: I mean exploting this bug: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2838

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Re:FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk... by dlgeek on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:03AM (#6508669)
I'm not a bit coin user, but that appears to be an attack on a "remote management" password for the client (it's about "RPC" or "remote procedure call" authentication), not for the wallet.

Wallets use a cryptographic key derivation function, this is against a plain text and configurable password. This would only be an issue if the wallet was loaded into the old version of the software at the time they attacked.

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