According to the article ‘the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will allege that an analytics specialist from the AFP’s Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce deciphered Mr Jung’s cryptocurrency account’s “seed phrase”.’

The word ‘decipher’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m wondering if they socially engineered or just found it written somewhere in the house?

Anyway, curious as to how they did it.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I wrote a script to generate seed phrases and look up if that derived into a key with any value. Then did the maths on how impossible that is and decided to stop.