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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
by
bigvito19
on 10/10/2021, 21:51:47 UTC
What does Std. Deviation: 1.1902380714238083 mean?

That it's likely a human-generated private key.

The standard deviations start from 0 to just over +-1, where +-1 (and above) mean that the key is definitely human-generated and 0 means it's definitely computer-generated.

None of the keys have std. deviation = 0 because you can never be quite sure whether a computer really did generate a key. But at low std. deviations you can be sure that the private key resembles as much as a random private key as possible.

Do you put a private key or public key in the input.txt because I used 1 public key. When I ran the script it gave me just 1 public key.