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Re: Random sweeps into my public wallet totaling 519.704 - Lost and Found?
by
Nyhm
on 25/12/2012, 15:40:13 UTC
It has come to my attention that this Simple Vanity Address Generator was the source of the address in question.

I assure you there is nothing intentionally malicious in the code, but it's one of the first Bitcoin applications I had written, and it could have bugs. In fact, I explain exactly that (and even warn against using it since it's closed source) on the page linked above.

I think what TheButterZone is doing here is honorable, and I want to do the right thing to. The generator is based on bitcoinj, and if there is any possibility of a collision attack the simple way I'm using it, this could be very important to the Bitcoin community (and bitcoinj developers). (EDIT: Although I think it's really unlikely.)

Give me a couple days (holidays) and I'll follow up.