The Quest To Liberate $300,000 Of Bitcoin From An Old Zip File

WIRED, Ars Technica
Sat, 08/08/2020 - 4:40am

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In October, Michael Stay got a weird message on LinkedIn. A total stranger had lost access to his bitcoin private keys—and wanted Stay's help getting his $300,000 back. It wasn't a total surprise that The Guy, as Stay calls him, had found the former Google security engineer. Nineteen years ago, Stay published a paper detailing a technique for breaking into encrypted zip files.

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The Quest To Liberate $300,000 Of Bitcoin From An Old Zip File

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