You have to wonder how many other things are out there with effectively worthless encryption because some old document or default option told them to/allowed them to implement it without any ‘hey! some 14 year old with a TI-83 could crack this key!’ warnings.
There was a book with a Bitcoin wallet generator code in it that specifically said that it was vulnerable and was only to be done as a demo test and yet somebody released a wallet with that code and fucked a bunch of people over on accident.
You have to wonder how many other things are out there with effectively worthless encryption because some old document or default option told them to/allowed them to implement it without any ‘hey! some 14 year old with a TI-83 could crack this key!’ warnings.
There was a book with a Bitcoin wallet generator code in it that specifically said that it was vulnerable and was only to be done as a demo test and yet somebody released a wallet with that code and fucked a bunch of people over on accident.