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Re: How much computing power would be needed to crack one bitcoin adress?
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on 07/07/2011, 12:00:47 UTC
Quote from: bcearl on July 07, 2011, 11:56:37 AM
You would have to break ECDSA with 256 bit keys. If you could do that, you could do a lot more than cracking Bitcoin addresses.

Thanks for the answer. And it does seem like a lot Smiley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA