Quote from: Kangaderoo on Today at 06:02:45 AM

Quote from: Tanagi on Today at 04:18:03 AM

Hi,

I am fascinated by Bitcoin and found Vanitygen particularly interesting.

I think I understand most of how it works except for the split key generation.

I get how the process works, but I cannot understand exactly how the PrivkeyPart and the address are calculated as the PrivkeyPart is not the private key for the Address. So how are they calculated seperately?

If anyone could provide an answer it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

You can find the basics of the agorithm here:
http:<slashslash>gobittest.appspot.com/VanityAll

On this site your can combine both private and public key to generate new results.
It show you raw private/public keys as well as the generated bitcoin addresses.
It supports both addition and multiplication of the private keys.
Vanitygen only uses the additions methode because public keys can only be added.

Thanks so much.

I use this site a lot and it's really helpful, but unfortunately doesn't answer my questions around exactly how Vanitygen calculates the address and the PrivkeyPart. The actual nuts and bolts of it.