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Be careful with vanity address generators. A cryptocurrency market maker once lost around $160,000,000 in a vanity Ethereum address because the generator they u
by tripplyons 11mo ago
Be careful with vanity address generators. A cryptocurrency market maker once lost around $160,000,000 in a vanity Ethereum address because the generator they used was only seeded with 32 bits of entropy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/09/20/profanity-may-be-the-cause-of-crypto-trading-firm-wintermutes-160-million-hack/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/09/20/profanit...
- age123456gpg 11mo agoIndeed, be careful with anything that involves secret bits. This tool uses proper crypto/rand initialisation of the starting key https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address/blob/314bd6641e546fd66613a823ba550cd0a4e46841/main.go#L225 https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address/b... Check out my other vanity generators (they all use crypto/rand): https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/age-vanity-keygen https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/age-vanity-keygen https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/ethereum-vanity-address https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/ethereum-vanity-addres...