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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
by
j2002ba2
on 17/07/2020, 08:14:42 UTC
Sorry, it is inconvenient to share information in public. But I can tell you that this paper wallet lacks the first 8 characters and the 5 characters in the middle and cannot be recognized. If you know of such software, can you recommend it?

If no more information is available, then you'd need 270 operations. While searching for it, there would be about 238 false positives. Currently it's unfeasible.

Every bit of additional information would halve the time.

Here are some questions that might help you:
How missing are the missing characters?
Are they totally erased?
Are there some parts of them visible?
Are there parts which are known to be empty, and certain characters wouldn't fit there?
Was it handwriting or printed?
If it was printed - was it with monospace font?
Is there a QR code (or part of it) available as well?
Was it password-protected (BIP38, starting with "6P")?