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borodutch
@warpcastadmin.eth
damn just got $250k drained from one of my cold wallets it's so cold there is no way of tracing how that happened it isn't a large amount of money but i'm kind of dumbfounded by how this happened can't put my finger on it
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
There’s two possibilities: - your hardware wallet was one of the ones that used poor entropy in generating a seed phrase and finally ended up in the carousel of wallets that got popped - the grimmest possibility, one I’ve been warning about
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
#2 sounds cryptic to me as I must have missed your previous warnings. Could you please refresh everyone’s memory? This is important
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I have a proof of concept that enhances Pollard's Rho such that it speeds up the search in solving the DLP. It's not a complete break, but if it were deployed at a large nation state scale, could crack a 256-bit ECC key (secp256k1, ed25519) in about a year. Highly unlikely what hit Boro, but if it's not bad entropy,
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
it falls under either a key break, or an astronomically unlikely birthday paradox event
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
> I have a proof of concept that enhances Pollard's Rho That sounds like a pretty big deal. Are you planning to publish a journal article? Before you get hired by the NSA that is
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
For the great unwashed masses (of which I belong), here's a primer: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/35471943.pdf
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christopher
@christopher
omg
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soulninja
@soulninja.eth
wait what thats actually not _that_ long
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