Quote from: hZti on Today at 07:54:16 AM

Quote from: nc50lc on Today at 05:24:23 AM

Vanitygen isn't a bruteforce tool, it can't search full addresses, it's only for generating "vanity" addresses.

Basically it is a bruteforce tool that could potentially bruteforce whole adresses. But since adresses are to complex it is not possible to find a complete adress in any reasonable time. So people stick with just a tiny part of the adress that they bruteforce.

Yes, it's the underlying method of the tool as stated in the OP.
But it already has a limit of 27characters prefix (including '1'), more or it will return with an error.

So I wouldn't call it a bruteforce tool unlike BitCrack; I'd stick with:

Quote from: samr7 on July 04, 2011, 03:29:50 AM

Vanitygen is a command-line vanity bitcoin address generator.