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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Hack any wallet?
by
isaac_clarke22
on 27/09/2019, 17:37:54 UTC
So there are 12 words chosen from thousands to recover any wallet.

If you iterate through random word combinations you will eventually generate a wallet that exists, correct?

I know the number of combinations is astronomical. But in theory if you keep generating random phrases, you might eventually stumble upon a wallet holding millions?

I don't think that even a random word generator would be able to like give you the seed of a wallet.
I am not quite sure how the algorithm of the generation of the seed works in Electrum but as far as I know it isn't vulnerable to this simple randomization of words.
It might need a really powerful computer like quantum ones to generate one, but for that matter it ain't worth it, OP.
For a common desktop computer that is widely used for home, it is gonna take a lot of years for that to generate a certain combination due to how many possible combinations could work.