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Re: Brute force private key tool?
by
Nagan
on 20/09/2013, 14:48:29 UTC
The thread is about brute forcing private keys, not about breaking secp256k1

I somehow feel that OP meant of having any practical way to compute a private key - and not to feed the semantic trolls Smiley
So depends on how are you defining the brute-forcing itself.

For any practical purposes, it is empirically probable that:
1. RIPEMD-160 & SHA256 & ECDSA algorithms will weaken in our lifetime due to advancing mathematics or weaknesses in design.
2. Quantum computing will advance. Modified Shor's/Grover's algorithms (or any new ones) will decrease the iteration count. I wonder how much acceleration the current theoretical implementions would give.

The probability for combination of these events in our lifetime (or even 10/5/2 years) can be roughly estimated, so that may show some interesting possibility on having the working tool.