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2 sats \ 3 replies \ @kilianbuhn 31 Jul \ parent \ on: Coldcard RNG Vulnerability Analysis by Device & Firmware security bitcoin_beginners

I don't think that's true. Bruteforcing preimages of passphrases should be per char which grows fast

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2 sats \ 2 replies \ @itsrealfake OP 31 Jul

https://xkcd.com/936/

we should be more specific when we say "strong".

what I'm getting at is: aardvarkaardvarkaardvarkaardvarkaardvark is a lot of characters, but if the mechanism for guessing words is plucking them alphabetically, you're not gonna be in a good situation

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7 sats \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 31 Jul

Rainbowtable attacks are mooooving the goaaalpost

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake OP 31 Jul

I don't want to misrepresent my level of understanding here, so I'll ask outright:

I thought rainbow tables were pre-constructed. Are you informing me that iterating words from the dictionary to create combinations of common words is a 'rainbow table' ?

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