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#Bitcoin White Hat #Bounty

I have created a new 12-word seed phrase on TAILS and added a passphrase to it. Afterward, I deposited a non-trivial amount of bitcoin (0.22290898 BTC) into the first address associated with that key.

bc1qwuj3kkxnznaj956tx990vtl47rxgt3ezrn8zgu

To encrypt the seed phrase, I used the following command:

gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 --armor -o input.txt.gpg input.txt

It's important to note that the passphrase is not encrypted with the seed phrase.

The encryption password is an alphanumeric string. The encrypted output from this operation is as follows:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

jA0ECQMCD4Mh2lo1wGr80q0B8atDhcx/euP9+CkkkPm3p3+cGGE9I+lJVBuyZTD4 8EPDMEj77IuMZgGcJJJ1jUqku1fJdQLsC+VyKhjkj28omj8mlP0Lo6TvLdERX1mt 63fB7igkUf5UTZ4/H5pQmMCygmwCU9JvCqdiwbvKn3KRGRb8vC636x4gkowTJm03 JUi87QdvoImyN5UzWuDr3Kyfw4euLWiOFAL0jWcvW2518X5oXrBO2xV+aw+I1A==

=K4z1

-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

I believe that my coins are SAFU, but I am extending an invitation to anyone who wants to try to decrypt the encryption and passphrase by brute force to claim the coins. If successful, congratulations, and you can have them with my compliments.

You may wonder why I am offering this challenge. Well, that's for me to know.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/16bz3t5/btc_white_hat_bounty/

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Discussion

_ 2y ago

cute

realjode 2y ago

Damn it - I thought brute force would mean cutting tools , explosives that sort of engineering!

Secretary Janet Yellen 2y ago

It is. But nerds want to sound tough too.

:P 2y ago

🧩

Merrcurr⚡️ 2y ago

Without the passphrase length at least it would be simply impossible or would require an unconceivable amount of computing power, even with it, chances of success would be almost non-existent

[806571]

Secretary Janet Yellen 2y ago

...like picking an atom in the universe

Undergotten 2y ago

It's amazing to me that I learned about pretty good privacy when I saw a news report about the government going after the creator, as I sat in my PJs, eating ice cream in my mom's living room.

Now my own children are almost adults, and pretty good privacy is still the gold standard.

Loki 2y ago

It's kinda sad that in nearly 30 years there's been very few real innovations in cryptosystems.