If there are some accounts with substancial amounts of NXT which are nobody's property and have weaker passwords than maybe we could create special thread to organise group cracking.
I'm sure a lot of people would like to use script/program to make such group brute force treasure hunting
It could be constructed in similar way as altcoins pool mining with system of distribution f.e. lucky one would get half of found NXTs and the rest of could get proportional part of other half. Also it could be a simple solo treasure hunting.
This would be great for increasing NXT community and would be simply fun. In future because of growing amounts of NXT's lost in void it would become even more successful. What do you think about it?
I'm sure a lot of people would like to use script/program to make such group brute force treasure hunting
It could be constructed in similar way as altcoins pool mining with system of distribution f.e. lucky one would get half of found NXTs and the rest of could get proportional part of other half. Also it could be a simple solo treasure hunting.
This would be great for increasing NXT community and would be simply fun. In future because of growing amounts of NXT's lost in void it would become even more successful. What do you think about it?
I would love to have a group like this exist. It would really show how difficult (or easy
) it is to crack a NXT account.I would gladly raise a funding for a project like this even just for research purpose.
I would consider that to be morally wrong, at least trying to crack private keys for weak passphrases. However, the hiberNXT on the other hard where there are no published public keys are another story.
You made a good point. Someone's acount can also have weak password.
But isn't there any difference between passwords locking common users accounts and these unused with NXTs sent there by mistake? Isn't it different format of password like random string + ending with string of zeros?
If there is a difference we can simply create a standard for treasure hunting of only these lost NXTs.
There is a difference between black hat and white hat hackers. We can try to hack even normal accounts, not to take the money away but to inform the owner and also raise the awareness about the security issue. I think it is normal procedure for security firm to invite or hire white hat hackers to hack their system to see if there is any compromise.