Hardware Vulnerability ‘Could Compromise Bitcoin Private Keys’

By July 15, 2015Bitcoin Business

hardware circuit Users storing bitcoin with hardware from a leading data protection company have been urged to update their devices or risk losing funds.

In a company blog post on Friday, Gemini CSO Cem Paya released details of a vulnerability he encountered that allows attackers to brute-force secret keys from SafeNet’s brand of hardware security modules, or ‘HSMs’.

These tamper-proof, specialist devices are used to safeguard all manner of cryptographic keys for the likes of governments, […]

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