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Re: Every wallet address has just one private key which can be generated again?
by
tesla80
on 16/06/2018, 09:25:43 UTC
Every public key has one private key. EDIT : this is wrong : There is actually 2^96 private key that corresponds to an address.
This actually is TRUE.
Each public key only corresponds to ONE private key.
Actually I removed the EDIT part, because it is not logical to me. One public key must have one private key always. Bu one address can correspond to more keys because of hashing.

There are many people work on resolving and emptying the used wallets.

Especially they claim that addresses which start with "1" and addresses generated with secret words (thus brain wallet) are not secure at all. I'm not familiar with the details that much but this seems dangerous to me, because almost every system generates addresses using brain wallet method with 7-8 words. This makes the most addresses weak. There are really good DEFCON briefs in youtube about this subject if anyone is interested.