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Re: [RFD] Bitcoin Deterministic wallet
by
publickeyhash
on 03/06/2011, 15:43:42 UTC
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Seems to me this would just allow attackers to guess people's passwords and thus be able to steal wallets rather easily.

I completely agree if the nonce was deterministic (not exactly a nonce at all!)

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Find x, where C(x) < 0x00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

(x starts from 0, and increases)

Thus x is a direct function of password. Thus as Garrett pointed out, guess a password and the algorithm will create the account, moreover: lots of average users would accidentally end up sharing the same password/account.

The idea seems fine if x was a random secret number.