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Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys
by
NotATether
on 18/07/2023, 12:03:10 UTC
tell me, is it possible to use bitcrack for Ethereum? Huh

you need AltCrack


does it work with ethereum? you need hash160, and the ether address is created differently

No, it does not.

ETH addresses take the Keccak (often mistaken for SHA-3 - they are NOT the same!) hash of the SHA-256 hash of the public key, they don't use hash160 at all.

Hey people!
I'm using BitCrack/AltCrack to find 66, but it only searches consecutively through 1 or some other number. Tell me if there is a program that can search for 66 puzzles by sorting through all the range options by mask.

for example this mask (decimal): XXXXXX123456XXXXXXXX

Now I have to run Altcrack 368,935 times consecutively to check the range for this mask, but this is very long. Is there any other way?

Altcrack is for finding the private keys of Bitcoin-like addresses such as Namecoin, Litecoin, Doge, Dash etc. Frankly, you will be spending more time programming the calculation of the version bytes and stuff like that with Altcrack, so unless it has a massive speed optimization, it's better to just stick with Bitcrack.