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Re: 0.1 BTC prize - Find Electrum pass by knowing both unecrypted+encrypted wallet?
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Coding Enthusiast
on 08/07/2019, 03:35:25 UTC
⭐ Merited by dbshck (4) ,achow101 (3) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,bones261 (2) ,LoyceV (2) ,franckuestein (1)
That simply is impossible since AES-256 (the encryption that Electrum uses) is a modern cipher which is resistant to known-plaintext attacks and it has been designed in a way to resist this type of attack specifically since in most use cases of it we already assume that the plaintext is known.