Millions Of Old Bitcoin Wallets Have Critical Security Flaws, Experts Say

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    2 years ago

    So basically BitcoinJS had something wrong with its random number generator, but the article doesn’t provide any details on what that might be.

    Edit; better source

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      Unciphered has successfully performed recovery of wallets generated using BitcoinJS derived software. In such cases, we have typically had to perform 48 bits of work.