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Re: I REGAINED access to Bitcoins in my made-up brainwallet!
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LoyceV
on 26/05/2024, 20:16:35 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
Out of curiosity: the subtraction of 1 from the intermediate 6P private key (I assume after conversion from WIF to hex format, otherwise the WIF's checksum would break) is an intentional obfuscation step?
I'm not subtracting "-1", I'm adding it (see this example as a nonce. I could use "-2" to get the next address. In a way, they're like hardened private keys: if one leaks, it's not possible to find the next one.

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Simple brainwallets (by human standards) are in many cases fundamentally flawed which has been proven. You simply can't use anything that's online available as source for a simple brainwallet (simple in terms of taking only the SHA-256 of the source phrase as private key).
Have a look at WarpWallet.