OneKey Reports Vulnerability in 120,000 Bitcoin Private Keys, Potential Impact on Trust Wallet

2025/10/19 23:29 (Updated 2025/10/20 12:01)
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OneKey Reports Vulnerability in 120,000 Bitcoin Private Keys, Potential Impact on Trust Wallet

Potential Vulnerability in 120,000 BTC Private Keys

On the 17th, cryptocurrency wallet company OneKey reported a vulnerability that could allow the cracking of approximately 120,000 Bitcoin (BTC) private keys. The issue originates from the Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) 3.x, which uses the system time and the Mersenne Twister 32 algorithm, resulting in a predictably small 232-bit seed space for key generation. This vulnerability does not lie within the Bitcoin blockchain itself but in the private key generation process of the wallet application. Private keys are generated by the wallet software on the user's device, and the issue is associated with the use of a specific library...

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