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Re: Collection of 18.509 found and used Brainwallets
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PlutonowyPokrzycz
on 08/08/2023, 21:46:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,ymgve2 (1)
So far I've seen only those online lists of brainwallets. I wonder if there are others available?

Most of you probably know this science paper "The Bitcoin Brain Drain: Examining the Use and Abuse of Bitcoin Brain Wallets" (Marie Vasek, Joseph Bonneau, R. Castellucci, C. Keith, T. Moore). It is available from this link: https://tylermoore.utulsa.edu/fc16.pdf

Authors do not reveal brainwallets in clear text. However, I've found this resource that contains files that are attachments to this paper: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml;jsessionid=3b3325c3157850e2d961cf61dfb1?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FRZHL3X&version=&q=&fileTypeGroupFacet=&fileAccess=Public&fileSortField=type

The most interesting files are probably: brainmaster.tab and attacksrc.tab files. They contain a list of more than 19k addresses identified to be protected with a brainwallet (again, no brainwallets in clear text, just information about the length of string). There are still many addresses in Vasek's list that you will not find on the websites mentioned in the beginning.
Some people that participated in this topic have their own lists of brainwallets. I wonder if there is anyone who cracked all addresses from Vasek's list? Probably not. Then, how many of them remain a mystery to you, still?

Are there other lists like this from Vasek? I mean, just addresses without brainwallets revealed?