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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: I forgot 6 words from my seed, any brute force tool ?
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pooya87
on 03/10/2020, 05:37:56 UTC
Someone has cracked a phrase with 4 (of 12) missing words using a rented GPU array (at a cost of $350) but with two more missing words, that figure would be millions of times higher.
keep in mind that all the numbers reported there are specific to that special case with that mnemonic and derivation path. the process of going from a mnemonic to an address can be very different and consequently the speed can be very different too. for example an Electrum mnemonic could give you a lot more collision due to its different checksum method that creates a lot more collisions compared to BIP-39 so you'll have to check a lot more seeds than BIP-39. additionally different derivation paths, hardened keys, depth,... affect the speed by a lot. a hardened derivation path could be at least 50 times faster to brute force.