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Security issue in blockchain.info's Android app (reddit.com)
5 points by _jomo on May 29, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


  And the final mistake: They were using HTTP instead of HTTPS
  to make the webservice call to random.org. On Jan 4, random.org started 
  enforcing HTTPS and returning a 301 Permanently Moved error for HTTP - see
  https://www.random.org/news/. So since that date, the entropy has actually 
  been the error message (turned into bytes) instead of the expected 256-bit number.
This is so ridiculous I'm not sure if I should cry or laugh...




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