Smashing Bitcoin BrainWallets, for fun and profit!

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Smashing Bitcoin BrainWallets, for fun and profit!

Author: Simo Ben youssef

Contact: sim o @morxploit.co m

Published: 29 January 2014

MorXploit Research

MorXploit Research

Audience: IT security professionals/Bitcoin users

Introduction:

Have you ever created one of those "brainwallets" then the next day you went

to check your wallet balance and it was all gone?

Well then most likely because you have used a dictionary-based Pass-phrase

and someone generated your private key based on that and imported your

wallet. Attackers these days generate trillions of dictionary-based private

keys and import them, resulting in the theft of other people Bitcoins.

This paper will explain how such attack can be achieved.

Download:

http://www.morxploit.com/morxpapers/smashingbitcoins.pdf