Topic: what happens if a BIP38 encrypted wallet is created without a password.... (Read 544 times)
November 24, 2013, 12:37:22 PM
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November 19, 2013, 05:25:01 PM
I noticed that it is possible to generate a wallet which is encrypted with BIP0038 without giving a password. How does this work?
Does the algorithm have a default password it uses to generate the new key? or is a random password generated?
If an address is created in this manner, i.e password-less, you cannot access it from bitaddress.org as an error is given that reads "Passphrase required for BIP38 key" so a password must be assigned to it somehow.
I wouldn't know where to start to look at the code to find this out for myself.
Does the algorithm have a default password it uses to generate the new key? or is a random password generated?
If an address is created in this manner, i.e password-less, you cannot access it from bitaddress.org as an error is given that reads "Passphrase required for BIP38 key" so a password must be assigned to it somehow.
I wouldn't know where to start to look at the code to find this out for myself.
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