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The cost to hack bitcoin hardware wallets with Dmitry Nedospasov SLP566
About this episode
Dmitry Nedospasov is a PhD in Chip Security, also known for his hardware wallet exploits in 2018 with the wallet.fail talk. Dmitry joins me to talk about hardware security in the world of bitcoin and how it compares with hardware chip security in other domains. We discuss:
- The 2018 wallet.fail talk
- Bitcoin compared with other industries
- Realistic hardware wallet attack types
- The cost of attacking a hardware device
- Backups and Shamir’s Secret Sharing
Links:
- X: @nedos
- LinkedIn: Dmitry Nedospasov
- Site: Keylabs.io
- Telegram: https://t.me/nedos
- wallet.fail talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OBIGslgGM
- Recoverylabs.io
Sponsors:
- Swan.com (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
- Mempool.space
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