A common question is whether adding a (BIP39) passphrase to a seed phrase provides protection against Dark Skippy and similar attacks. The answer is no. This attack can work directly against the master private key, not the seed phrase.
https://nunchuk.io/blog/dark-skippy
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2024-08-08 17:05:08Event JSON
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