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Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys
by
pacnload
on 27/04/2021, 14:52:29 UTC
is there any way to let bitcrack work with octal and not hexdecimal to create and check the adresses?

IIRC it's not possible unless you modify the source code to support octal

and one more questions why in base58 the code uses "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz" why the IO l and 0 (zero) is missing?

Because those 4 character are visually similar. Here's information from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding#Background

Code:
// Why base-58 instead of standard base-64 encoding?
// - Don't want 0OIl characters that look the same in some fonts and
//      could be used to create visually identical looking account numbers.
// - A string with non-alphanumeric characters is not as easily accepted as an account number.
// - E-mail usually won't line-break if there's no punctuation to break at.
// - Doubleclicking selects the whole number as one word if it's all alphanumeric.

okay that with il and 0o i understand but if i change the sourcecode with other since it dont work. is it maybe possible to leave the 8 and 9 and add an 0 like "01234567ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"

for the octal numbers if someone read this and have knowledge please let me know.