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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Is bitcoin System Vulnerable ?
by
Pursuer
on 13/10/2016, 09:30:48 UTC
This question is arising in my mind after i did some research.
What will happen if someone brute Force Private keys in Base58 Format ?

what do you mean by brute force?

if you think someone can find private key from public key then it is impossible.

but if you are thinking about brute forcing an encrypted private key, then it depends on the encryption method that was used and the password used for that encryption so it can be possible or impossible depending on what I said.

I meant he generate all the private keys which are possible and then search them using the addresses .
Isn't that correct

it is possible but it takes until the end of time to generate a small portion of total private keys.