data/dart_random__cake_wallet_pattern__electrum_mnemonic/README.md

# Cake Wallet - Weak Bitcoin Wallets

This folder is about vulnerable versions of `Cake Wallet` which used the insecure `Random::Random()` PRNG of the `Dart` programming language to generate Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallets, resulting in extremely weak wallets.

Unlike other wallet software, the used mnemonic standard is `Electrum`, not `BIP39`, and the public usage is (to our knowledge) Bitcoin-specific.

See also:
* https://milksad.info/posts/research-update-6/
* https://milksad.info/posts/research-update-9/
* https://milksad.info/posts/research-update-10/

(incomplete article list)

## Data

### Hashed Mnemonic Seed of Discovered Wallets

A collection of hashes over the mnemonic secrets for all vulnerable wallets we discovered at the time of data set creation.

* Creation date: around 2023-11-24
* Detection: confirmed Bitcoin Mainnet usage of a `bc1` address on at least one of the sub-accounts, checked until #79
* Bitcoin Mainnet address database from ca. early 2023-11
* Entry format: SHA-256 hash computed over the lowercase space-separated seed string without leading spaces, trailing spaces or newlines
* File format: newline-separated ASCII entries, sorted
* Additional comments: 12 word Electrum seed, "100" segwit prefix

#### Data example

Mnemonic: `ensure finish energy title soccer frame audit ahead swim fee course shoe`

Hash result: `f56599f4353c6f5d4d01cf9a9c2548cc2a70d3684c127962515b681692ab2b3e`

The example is a valid mnemonic but was unused at the time, and is therefore not included in the data set itself.

#### Publication Details

We provided the 11/2023 version of this data set to the `Cake Wallet` vendor on 2023-11-24 for public adoption into patched new app versions. The data allows for client-side checks in the application to spot and warn of a continued use of known-vulnerable wallets.

They merged it via https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet/pull/1238/files on 2023-12-18.