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Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Merits 5 from 2 users
Re: Address reuse (Bitcoin Core)
by
pooya87
on 23/08/2024, 02:27:05 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,vapourminer (1)
Is this really a problem in practice?
Only if you use a very, very shitty wallet. I remember reading this case (although it was about "R values" instead of "nonce k").
blockchain.info is probably the most popular shitty wallet in short bitcoin history! I remember at some point they were using random.org to generate k value! And they even did that in the stupidest way possible. The code didn't even check if the http respond was successful or sent the correct reply; so when random.org changed its system and started sending a broken respond, the blockchain.info wallet software used that as the actual respond and computed k value based on that so everyone using their wallet ended up with the same k value!