Quote from: jc12345 on August 02, 2015, 03:05:51 PM

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Even with that, can't some hacker just generate a rainbow table? They would compare their rainbow table to the blockchain, and when they get a match, just import the private key into their wallet and steal those coins? Or would that be too unwieldy?

http://directory.io <-- bitcoin
http://buttcoins.com <-- bitcoin, clamcoin, dogecoin, litecoin

Start searching. Those websites contain every possible address and private key.

Those sites are probably fake or maybe contains only a tiny fraction of the keyspace. It is not possible to create a rainbow table for Bitcoin with today's technology. It will take too much time and energy and storage space. There are so many links to quote where people have already answered why this is not possible at this point. Just google it. Ill past a few:

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Rainbow tables can still be usefull for weak private keys. As I have read the private key can be a sha256 hash of every possible (non zero) input. Now if you take a dictionary of common words there is a change of hitting a valid private key. Like for example 'sausage' if you hash the string 'sausage' and import the (base58 encoded) outcome in your bitcoin wallet you will see that it was used. They are als usefull for keys generated with weak random number generators (like in Android or Java). I investigated the hack where I lost my coins and I do not think it was done with a trojan. My geuss is that the axiom wallet rpc interface is vulnerble for buffer overflow or maybe it uses a weak random generator. I am still investigating it, but my network logging does not show signs of a trojan.

You dont have a clue what you are talking about regarding public/private key cryptography do you?

I guess this also applies to you. Are you sure you have no signs of a trojan on your system? Upload your wallet and minerd again and compare the virustotal hashes.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1135151.msg12024102#msg12024102

I do know what I am talking about regarding cryptography, it is part of my daily job. Explain to me what is wrong with my explanation if you know it better.

Let me explain the sausage example (all uncompressed):

SHA256(sausage) = 30caae2fcb7c34ecadfddc45e0a27e9103bd7cfc87730d7818cc096b1266a683
BASE58(30caae2fcb7c34ecadfddc45e0a27e9103bd7cfc87730d7818cc096b1266a683) = 5JBmuBc64pVrKLyDc8ktyXJmAeEwKQogn6jsk6taeq8zRMtGZrE

Now the derived public key will be 1TnnhMEgic5g4ttrCQyDopwqTs4hheuNZ

Check the block explorer: https://blockchain.info/address/1TnnhMEgic5g4ttrCQyDopwqTs4hheuNZ

The result, a public and private key based on the word 'sausage':
1TnnhMEgic5g4ttrCQyDopwqTs4hheuNZ
5JBmuBc64pVrKLyDc8ktyXJmAeEwKQogn6jsk6taeq8zRMtGZrE

Now tell me, where am I wrong?