Michael, whose identity was blurred during the 21-minute-long video, which has amassed nearly 300,000 views, emailed Joe for help last year.friend Bruno, Joe was able to reverse engineer the RoboForm password generator in order to regenerate passwords that have been generated in the past.
It creates complex, unique passwords for different accounts, stores them in an encrypted vault, and can autofill login information on websites and applications. The password management software then generated the password, which Michael promptly copied and put in the passphrase of his wallet.
Joe noted that brute-forcing the password—generating a vast list of possible passwords and testing them one by one—was an impractical solution due to its complexity.“If we had to try every possible password combination, that’s more than 100 trillion times the number of water drops in the entire world,” the
After accepting helping Michael this time, Joe used a tool developed by the US National Security Agency to disassemble the password generator’s code.