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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
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Siberian047
on 23/06/2021, 17:30:11 UTC
Brainless is not looking for pubkey #110; he is looking for #120's pubkey inside 2^110 range via shifting #120's pubkey.  Ultimately he has shrank the range by a factor of 2^10 = 1024 but needs to run the program for each pubkey or integrate runs with the 260 pubkeys.   

I believe that for more chances to find a private key, you could shift the range down even more, like to 2^70 but you have 2 million targets.

2 million is about 2^21 targets and birthday reduces the probability of a hit to 2^35, 50% of the keyspace which makes an average of almost 2^21 * 2^35 = nearly 2^56 operations. That's lower than 260 keys at 2^110 keyspace. So I think that it's possible to optimize how much you shift down by adjusting the number of targets and the resulting keyspace size to minimize ops = keyspace/2 + log2_numberoftargets.
The problem is if you were to shift #120 down to 2^70 range, that means you'd have to check 2^50 targets (120 - 70 = 50); which obviously makes it impossible to check that many targets.  How did you come up with 2 million targets?
2^50 is
one quadrillion ,
one hundred twenty five trillion ,
eight hundred ninety nine billion ,
nine hundred six million ,
eight hundred forty two thousand ,
six hundred twenty four  That would make a text file over 100 gb, what text editor would open that to see what you need to add or subtract to get the answer



2^50= 1.125.899.906.842.624