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Keybleed / Randstorm and Bitcoin Core (self.bitcoin)

submitted 11 months ago by Mercury1337 to c/bitcoin

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Hi all! Does anybody know if bitcoin core (bitcoin-qt) is also vulnerable to keybleed / randstorm? Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Randstorm is specific to javascript implementations of bitcoin (as in bitcoin-js, not sure if there are others). Bitcoin core is unaffected, it's written in C++.

Keybleed is just unciphered's wallet checker app, right? Not some separate vulnerability?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

My understanding is that it only effects wallets which used bitcoin-js, so core and most wallets are safe. It should only effect wallets generated in a web browser like paper wallet generators and those at a handful of sites. Bitcoin core and most desktop clients should be safe from this.