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Re: [Bounty - 0.5 BTC ($500)] Javascript / Password Recovery issue
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schalk
on 30/11/2013, 02:56:41 UTC

Hi Tubby,

Your progress alert is working how I'd expect, however your code doesn't seem to be actually checking each address against the target. Once the target address is found, it should stop processing and show what phrase generated that address.

I tried your code with the following phrase:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv

The real bitaddress.org says the address for that is 1KVGuANp3HyH4m6xQYhUV9EWhq6tUVypAG

So, in your html, I input:

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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1KVGuANp3HyH4m6xQYhUV9EWhq6tUVypAG

There are 26 combinations in the above, but your code tries all 26 of them with no 'success', whereas it should have found success on the 23rd 22nd attempt.

My originally supplied code in the OP does properly check the target address and stop processing at that point, so this is functionality that you have broken or removed in your version. If you can put that functionality back in, the bounty would be yours.

Thanks very much.


Isn't this the unexpected result?

Shouldn't it just check:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstua
abcdefghijklmnopqrstub
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuc
,,,
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuz

so it will never check abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv?