Android error allows bitcoin theft

[A Former User]

Android error allowed Bitcoin theft A faulty random number generator in Android allows According to the Bitcoin Foundation, the simple theft of Bitcoins. The generator under certain circumstances, the same numbers, so that the signature is identical to public scrutiny and thus the private key with which the Bitcoin wallet is controlled, can be calculated. Managing Bitcoin wallets on an Android smartphone could, according to the Bitcoin Foundation have serious consequences. For a faulty random number generator which is used by some Bitcoin Apps for signing transactions, the address of the Bitcoin wallets could become public. Bitcoin wallets are a form of an account that is stored on the Bitcoins. Is the owner of Bitcoin Wallets who has the private key of the wallet. This could now be through the use of faulty random number, which is used when encrypting the transaction becomes public. Already exploited vulnerability The random apparently produced under certain circumstances, the same numbers, making publicly available a transaction signature is identical and can be calculated in a roundabout way the private key. According to reports in the Bitcoin Forum Talk it came with the help of this method already to numerous thefts, Bitcoin Foundation advises that currently do not use apps like blockchain.info affected or BitcoinSpinner. For the app Bitcoin Wallet Wallet mycelium and there are already updates that should fix the problem. Who has used these apps and want to be sure of getting a new bitcoin wallet should generate and transfer its Bitcoins it.