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the willingness of an attacker to apply money to the problem. I agree but I think the problem here is that hardware wallets don't give up their hashes easily s
by LinuxBender 4y ago
the willingness of an attacker to apply money to the problem.
I agree but I think the problem here is that hardware wallets don't give up their hashes easily so the attacker either knows a secret hardware backdoor in which case ciphers are entirely bypassed, or they know how to coax the hashes out of those devices. Has this become a thing? I know some of them are vulnerable to side channel attacks and some of them only use sha256 but I have not seen a simple way to extract the hashes, at least not in the forums I visit. There are a few really cheap hardware wallets that people have reverse engineered the firmware and worked backwards to extract pins but I think that is for specific models.
Is there a common attack vector that applies to all the hardware wallets to extract the hashes?
- pwg 4y agoFor hardware wallets, provided there are no backdoors/side channels/JTAG holes, they are probably safe from this rig. But, the OP's original statement: "for your crypto wallet or personal notes/ diary" encompasses by far more than merely "hardware wallets". So the relative safety of hardware wallets as a minority subset is not overall indicative of the safety of your proposed method for all the other members of the majority of the set.
- WHA8m 4y agoVery interesting conversation for me. Thank you! Specifically I want to encrypt a folder with VeraCrypt for my data.