As bitcoin price hit new low it is getting hard to justify selling bitcoin to pay for GPU rentals - so I'm trying to think outside of the box for finding public key for damaged WIF backup (see post#
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5380095) that happened approx. an year ago -
I completely forgot about that problem! But as you see in the replies to the OP, it was one of reason why WifSolverCuda was wrote. It was one year ago... uhh.
How did you try to recover the WIF? How much work has been done?
Of course having public key would made the problem trivial, but without... not easy.