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Oct 31, 2018

Kudos to Christian Reiter and Jochen Hoenicke for identifying and disclosing vulnerability in reference implementation of bech32 address handling. This affects many Bitcoin projects, ask your favourite devs for update! blog.trezor.io/details-about-

₿ Lord Kristaps Kaupe  ($ is for sats)

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Nov 2, 2018

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@peterktodd

What else would you suggest for embedded devices like Trezor?

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Rust is a low-level language fitting into the same niche with comparable performance while still providing memory safety. They use Python extensively on the Trezor Model T for the non-performance-critical code, which isn't ideal either, partly since the implementation is more C.

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