Re: How long to crack 24 word phrase if you know all 24 words out of order?
If you don't know the position of 13 words instead of 12, then there are 13x as many combinations to try, so that would take roughly 13 hours.
For 14 words, 7 days.
For 15 words, 16 weeks.
For 16 words, 5 years.
For 17 words, 85 years.
For 18 words, 1500 years.
For 14 words, 7 days.
For 15 words, 16 weeks.
For 16 words, 5 years.
For 17 words, 85 years.
For 18 words, 1500 years.
To be clear the "good hardware" in this context for this duration means a 48-core cloud computing server not a regular good hardware PC. With a PC with the best CPU you would get a couple of hours, possibly 5 or 6.
That's for BIP39 mnemonic, but for Electrum it should take a lot less by a factor of about 12.
That's for BIP39 mnemonic, but for Electrum it should take a lot less by a factor of about 12.
Exactly. That's why I am not a big fan of providing exact data and saying "I will take 7 days". It will take 7 days on one specific computer, while on other it would take 6 days or 8 days. If Google or Amazon would like to use their datacenters and their hardware, maybe it would take 5 minutes.
The point it to understand how difficulty (time estimation) changes when we change length of seed - they say size does not matter, but we clearly see the longer the better
