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Does PBKDF2 HMAC 512 really only produce a maximum of ~128 bits of entropy? Regardless of input?
Andreas Antonopoulos effectively states: an input of 256bits of entropy into PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 will ONLY output a 64 byte hash containing ~128 bits of entropy. He states the algorithm essentially ...
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Bitcoin Key Recovery Without Nonce Re-Use
There are a lot of questions in these forums regarding the recovery of private keys.
But I'm here to postulate on something unique to a specific piece of research that I looked into recently.
The ...
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Do I need to use HMAC in this crypto wallet backup application?
I'm building an application for securely backing up cryptocurrency private keys or 12-word backup phrases that crypto wallets use as a seed to generate private keys. For the purpose of this question, ...
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