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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: about Brute-force missing private key in the end !
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ETFbitcoin
on 31/01/2019, 18:43:08 UTC
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).

Additionally if you don't have the public key, you need to generate public key/address and check each of it on blockchain explorer or full node client RPC/API which is huge overhead.