Quote from: dothebeats on June 11, 2019, 02:04:18 PM

Quote from: revnec on June 11, 2019, 10:05:08 AM

Anyway, obviously some kind of pattern COULD exist, and I'm not saying I'm right, because I do not comprehend the cryptography behind it, I only know some basic coding in a couple languages, but nothing about cryptography. I do know, that a lot of smart people, are working on AI, as it's the future of stuff.

If such a pattern exists, we would have broken a lot of encryption algorithms by now, but only a few have been broken thus far (SHA-1, among others).

Quote from: revnec on June 11, 2019, 10:05:08 AM

So, why couldn't a coder, start coding, methods where the software its self, in an AI way, start finding patterns in these private and public keys? I haven't been looking into BTC in a while, maybe there's articles about this already, but I was just thinking about it.

The problem here is not reliant solely on the coder but the technology and hardware that we currently have today. Sure, a brilliant coder could have made an AI that is so advanced and self-learning that in time, would be able to do a lot of things. The question is, how would that AI continue learning if it is bound/limited by the hardware it runs on? Take note, the Moore's law has been somewhat dead, and with that said I don't think the rate to which we will have advancements on processing power is fast enough to beat/decipher the pub/priv key pairs through brute-forcing.

Quote from: revnec on June 11, 2019, 10:05:08 AM

I think its possible a group, or someone, could find a pattern, using advanced code, Ai in mind, to decipher public keys.
The method of how it's encrypted is known, (Though, Wow, it seems confusing)
But the fact that that's known, and that it's a series of characters, means, there could (I think there IS) patterns to easily crack any public key, with a very sophisticated method, AI coding (If that's a term)

If an array of millions of highly-advanced processors cannot decipher this code you're referring to, how would an AI, or better yet a group of people come up with a solution? Not that I'm belittling the minds of our geniuses but again, current technology is lacking to do just that.

Quote from: revnec on June 11, 2019, 10:05:08 AM

If that happened, and groups of people figured this out, the whole thing and all the alties would collapse.

Yes, or we move on into another encryption algorithm which is exponentially better than what we had, by then.

Your point on if there was a pattern is exactly right, there is so much financial incentive to break encryption that if it was something that was easy or had a vulnerability it would have been found.