Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Once we have access to wallet.dat, we can use this file to extract the passphrase hash for cracking.”

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

python3 /opt/john/run/bitcoin2john.py wallet.dat

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “Drilling into the LastPassData table by selecting Browse Table, we see several rows of interest to us.”

Tips or important notes

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