About uCoin brainwallets security

[vit]

On the chat room, @s_b_ raise a security concern about Bitcoin brainwallets cracking method :

https://rya.nc/cracking_cryptocurrency_brainwallets.pdf

uCoin wallets are those kind of wallets, and may be we should evaluate the security of the private key/ public key generation at the light of this cracking method…

[kimamila]

Hi vit !

In this doc, I read :
“Alternatives
(…)
● WarpWallet supports a salt and uses scrypt for key stretching
”

=> Exactly what we do in uCoin
Perfect !

[cgeek]

Indeed, we just lack hash. This is kind of good news