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Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
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NotATether
on 12/10/2021, 05:28:05 UTC
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.

Oh you just use public keys.

Just change the nkeys variable at the top to be the number of keys you want to receive (and make sure bits_toinspect is greater than or equal to log2(nkeys).)

Does it have any REAL value other than purely statistical?

Yes, provided I can figure out how to jump from one low std. deviation key to the next without pregenerating them all.

I have a newbie question.
If I need to find just one private key somewhere in 256bit space does it have a meaning to use gpu? Or cpu is enough?
When gpu is used either for bsgs or kangaroo how many % of gpu power is used? Because if I am not wrong common gpu has got hundrets to thousands cores but over here in forum I could see examples running just a few threads on gpu? How is it? What is the principle for gpu usage? Each core mskes exactly the same task just for different interval?

GPU cores get dozens of smaller ranges loaded in them at once, these get searched quickly so that they can be loaded again, that's why GPUs are much faster than CPU.