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Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
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bigvito19
on 14/10/2021, 15:05:08 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).)

That's equivalent to knowing the very lowest bit of the private key so you've effectively reduced your search range by a power of 2 e.g. 2^60 --- 2^59. It's not useful enough in a practical setting though. Not to mention there isn't a foolproof way to guess the private key's parity in the first place.

Do you have an example of that?