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Bitcoin.org alert: Android security vulnerability in random-number generation
Contemporaneous Bitcoin security alert establishing a real weak-randomness wallet-key exposure problem, affected Android wallet software, and the need to update and rotate affected keys. It is not evidence of an efficient discrete-logarithm algorithm.
- Published
- Aug 11, 2013
- Source role
- primary disclosure
Evidence record
Contemporaneous Bitcoin security alert establishing a real weak-randomness wallet-key exposure problem, affected Android wallet software, and the need to update and rotate affected keys. It is not evidence of an efficient discrete-logarithm algorithm.
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- supportsCan AI recover a wallet private key? The proof that is still missing: In August 2013, Bitcoin.org warned that weaknesses in Android secure random-number generation made affected Android-generated Bitcoin wallet keys vulnerable and advised software updates and key rotation.
Bitcoin.org security alert dated 11 August 2013, What happened; What has been done; What you should do