Stay random, friends. Or better yet, stay completely random—and let your machine remember it for you. Have you ever used a brain wallet? (Don't tell us the phrase!) Let us know in the comments if this post made you paranoid.
We spend a lot of time worrying about hackers brute-forcing passwords. We imagine a supercomputer trying aaaaa , aaaab , aaaac ... We feel safe because that would take a million years. brainflayer
If you aren’t a crypto user, a "Brain Wallet" is a password you remember (like MyCatIsFluffy123 ) that generates a private key for a cryptocurrency wallet. The promise was always: "Don't write down your keys. Just remember a strong sentence." Stay random, friends
If you created a brain wallet in 2012 using a line from The Hobbit ? Brainflayer has already checked that phrase, all its capitalizations, and all its typo variations. The moment you funded that wallet, a bot using Brainflayer would sweep it empty in under 30 seconds. Yes, if you use "memorable" phrases for keys. (Don't tell us the phrase
Meet . It doesn't do that. What is Brainflayer? Brainflayer is an open-source proof-of-concept tool (often found on GitHub) designed for one terrifyingly specific task: Brain Wallet cracking.