Well, I'm not interested in signatures and related stuff, the entire elliptic curve system revolves around public keys, so that is the only entry point for me to try all I got and find the best solution. "If there are no known method to correctly guess the position of any X coordinate of k, then finding a way should be a goal.
I have been studying the secp256k1 for the past 2 months, and tried at least 40-50 methods to figure out which one could be used to crack the target k by hand, not using automated existing tools.
What actually is bothering me is a lack of a safe environment to publish study results without worrying about other people exploiting them! Though I'm in the learning phase, no breakthroughs yet!😉
Without to be paranoiac finding a weakness on ECC such secp256k1 and stay anonymous in a "safe place" is near impossible in this hyper-connected world
After this discover billions of dollars will be instantly at the fingertips of the researcher and at the others well informed (notice that the most probable issue is that the price of bitcoin will drop to zero).
Armed forces, governments,research consortium,mathematicians, big tech societies, will deploy all possible mean to obtain the study (and not only the legal ways
). just to insure that if secp256k1 is broken or partially broken means that the other curve (like the very close secp256r1 widely used) aren't compromised too.Today every secures communications (website certificate, https, bank,cryptocurrency, army, administration... on internet use ECC.And a lot of our economy is based on the security of the communications.
The cake is simply too big...