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Ethereum Password Bug - solace - 01-08-2018
Hi all, I'm trying to gain access to my Ethereum presale wallet.
However, Ethereum has acknowledge the possibility of a bug in generation of wallet files.
https://github.com/ethereum/mist/issues/3513
It seems that it may only be an issue on an import/open with their official wallet, and other services are able to open the wallet. That would then mean that Hashcat could indeed recover the password. Right?
RE: Ethereum Password Bug - Chick3nman - 01-08-2018
Hashcat's implementations of the Ethereum wallet modes, including presale, do not rely on the ethereum wallet code at all to check if the password is correct/decrypt. A bug in their code for decryption/opening wallets wont affect hashcat and the password will still be recovered. However, if there was a bug on generation of the wallet, such as a encoding issue with the password->key step, then hashcat will still require that you hit the correct password for decryption, which may not be the exact password you had set in the wallet.
RE: Ethereum Password Bug - solace - 01-18-2018
Thanks Chick. Just wanted to be entirely sure. Cheers,