Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

BINGO

Why are you brute forcing WIF?

To demonstrate to you that even 10 is not a problem.
The problem is that we are not dealing here with 2, 6, 8 or 10 missing characters...
But with 18 specifically for Puzzle 66.....
It is useless, whatever method you use. Cry

I'm not talking about missing characters or puzzle 66, I'm talking about a way to determine last characters of a private key by working with points.

Quote from: vhh on Today at 06:45:13 AM

These are natural behaviors when you're working on a curve over a finite field. You need to study them more (properties of curves over prime fields, pairings, embedding degree, etc) in order to avoid attributing a magical aura to every result that pops out.

There is no magical aura, and there is no natural behaviour, everything depends on group order, working with points without working on scalar is pointless, in reality we don't need to work with points alone, but since we don't know the private key we work with points.

E.g, if you divide 16577/7 = 2368.142857, divide 16477/7 =
2353.857143, now dividing 16576/7 = 2368, now all we need to do is finding what key results in 0.142857 and 0.85143 when divided, and by what number. After that having all keys between 2353 and 2368 saved for comparing is easy. This is just an example.