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Re: How to create an N bit ECDSA compatible private key from dice rolls in python
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on 19/01/2017, 03:17:33 UTC
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Quote from: achow101 on January 19, 2017, 01:44:39 AM
An ECDSA private key is simply a 256 bit integer between 0x1 and 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364140.
There is a roughly 1 in 2^128 chance (not worth worrying about) of a random 256 bit key not falling in this range.
What would happen to a wallet program if this happened?