Computer Researcher Finds Wallet Vulnerability That Gave Same Key to Multiple Users
Cointelegraph
Published May 27, 2019 04:37PM ET
Computer Researcher Finds Wallet Vulnerability That Gave Same Key to Multiple Users
Online cryptocurrency paper wallet creator WalletGenerator.net previously ran on code that caused private key/public key pairs to be issued to multiple users. The vulnerability was described in an official blog post by security research Harry Denley of MyCrypto on May 24.
According to the post, the bad code was in effect by August 2018, and was only recently patched out as of May 23. The live code on the website is reportedly supposed to be open source and audited on GitHub, but there were differences detected between the two. After researching the live code, Denley concluded that the keys were deterministically generated on the live version of the website, not randomly.
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