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meowface on Jan 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Jason Bourne Stores His Bitcoin

Sounds to me like it'd be better to encourage people to pick longer passphrases (8 - 10 words instead of 4), in addition to using scrypt.

vbuterin on Jan 19, 2014 [–]

All you really need is to always prepend your username to your password. If people all did that, then 99.9%+ of these brainwallet thefts would already not have happened. Slow KDFs are just icing on the cake.

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