Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger, issued a statement aimed at responding to recent concerns from the community regarding the “Ledger Recover” feature, which allows the extraction of the seed of certain users. As such, the Ledger Recover code will soon be made open source for the sake of transparency.
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Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledgerspoke this afternoon in order to respond to the strong criticism received by the company regarding its new Ledger Recover feature. The latter, which makes it possible to extract the seed from the Ledger Nano X in order to divide it and transmit it in encrypted form to third parties, has indeed aroused strong reactions on social networks.
“Our unintentional miscommunication took everyone by surprise and affected our customers’ ability to properly understand Ledger Recover, its role for the growing crypto community, and for Ledger’s future offering. »
The CEO of Ledger says the company is just continuing its mission to make crypto easier and safer, and this feature comes directly in line with that. The latter also explains that the different applications available on Ledger Nano as well as part of the OS are already available in open source for the sake of transparency.
And Ledger Recover, the much-maligned feature lately, should soon follow suit :
“So we made the decision to accelerate the open source roadmap! We will include Ledger OS as much as possible, starting with core OS components, and Ledger Recover, which will not be released until this work is complete. Additionally, we will make the Ledger Recover protocol open source, allowing the community to have as many choices as possible about self-detention, in addition to the service being entirely optional. This roadmap will be shared and updated by our CTO and engineering team. »
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Ledger Recover will therefore not be available until its code has been published, according to Pascal Gauthierwhich Charles Guillemet, the company’s CTO, repeated in an explanatory thread.
At the same time, interviewed at the microphone of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, the CEO of Ledger indicated that the 3 pieces of encrypted seed could be sent to governments if they so request. An unlikely case, according to him, reserved for very serious cases such as terrorism and drug cases.
As for the main question, which is to know why Ledger claimed last November that the seed phrase of the users could not be extracted from the chip with an update of its firmware whereas this is a priori possible, the latter did not receive an explanation through the press release from Pascal Gauthier.
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