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Recover a Bitcoin private key from its public key, in the browser

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1 points by simonmales · 3 comments

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simonmalesOP

Author here. I built this once learning about front running the Bitcoin puzzles.

  • techniquetech

    seems cool -- wasn't there that guy searching through a trash heap for years searching for his thumb drive? guessing he didn't have the public key, or if he did this would've fixed his situation?

    • tromp

      You may have missed this part:

      > What this does not show

      > The attack above depends on conditions that ordinary Bitcoin keys do not meet.

      > Ordinary Bitcoin keys are not affected by any of this

      > A properly generated private key is spread across roughly 2 to the power of 256 possibilities. The square root of that is 2 to the power of 128, which is not attackable by anyone, with any budget, ever.

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