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Re: Concerns regarding deterministic wallet
by
niniyo
on 09/05/2013, 23:54:13 UTC
Nobody tries to "guess" a private key.  Brute forcing private keys is for all intents and purposes infeasible.  256bit is a large number (likely a quadrillion to the quadrillionth times larger than you "think" it is).

It's way way smaller than that.  Accordingly to wolfram alpha, (10^15)^(10^15) is more than 10 quadrillion decimal digits long.  You couldn't write that number on paper if you spent your whole lifetime trying.  2^256 can be written with only 76 decimal digits, so I could write that down on paper in less than a minute.