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Laptop SHA-512 acceleration for seed brute force

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https://x.com/LLFOURN/status/2083001343678259477

Captured screenshot of the post by @LLFOURN, posted 31 Jul 2026, 01:26 UTC
@LLFOURN posted captured full-size capture → original post →
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LLFOURN notes that a laptop CPU with dedicated SHA-512 instructions may be enough for offline BIP-39 seed brute forcing and says he plans to work on it over the weekend. Held as a dated technical observation about the compute requirements for attacking the disclosed entropy weakness. The claim is the poster's own and is not independently verified here.

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