Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-07-24 📝 Original message:On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-07-24
📝 Original message:On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Aaron Voisine <voisine at gmail.com> wrote:
> The upcoming release of breadwallet uses the height of the blockchain to
> enforce timed pin code lockouts for preventing an attacker from quickly
> making multiple pin guesses. This prevents them changing the devices system
> time to get around the lockout period.
Is breadwallet tamper resistant & zero on tamper hardware? otherwise
this sounds like security theater.... I attach a debugger to the
process (or modify the program) and ignore the block sourced time.
📝 Original message:On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Aaron Voisine <voisine at gmail.com> wrote:
> The upcoming release of breadwallet uses the height of the blockchain to
> enforce timed pin code lockouts for preventing an attacker from quickly
> making multiple pin guesses. This prevents them changing the devices system
> time to get around the lockout period.
Is breadwallet tamper resistant & zero on tamper hardware? otherwise
this sounds like security theater.... I attach a debugger to the
process (or modify the program) and ignore the block sourced time.