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Re: about Brute-force missing private key in the end !
by
arulbero
on 31/01/2019, 17:18:11 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (1)
You have all of the private key except 20 characters (80 bits)? Then it is possible and feasible to recover the entire key using baby-step-giant-step or pollard's tho algorithm.

It will require 2^40 work, which is a few hours on a GPU.

1) Only if you know the public key too (not the address).

2) baby-step-giant-step in this case (80 bits) would require more than 2^40 work, because you don't have enough Ram to store 2^40 public keys.


To retrieve the last 60 bits (bitcoin case) my program takes about 5 minutes (it run on a single cpu). It uses baby-step-giant-step algorithm and 32 GB.