Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 07:06:57 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on November 03, 2023, 10:30:10 PM

Yes but it is as likely as you walking to the correct beach and picking the exact grain of sand that is the one needed to open your wallet.

Actually....... that's much more likely:

Quote from: https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2019/02/05/more-stars-than-grains-of-sand-on-earth-you-bet/60474645007/

Scientists estimate that Earth contains 7.5 sextillion sand grains. That is 75 followed by 17 zeros.

Let's visualize it:
7500000000000000000 grains of sand. And that's not only the beaches, that includes the much larger deserts too.

A 128 bit private key gives:
340282366920938463463374607431768211456 possibilities. That's 45370982256125128461 possibilities for each grain of sand on earth.

Super computers are no match for 128 bit encryption.

right but you left out that me walking to any grain of sand is a huge factor slower than having 1000 super fast pc's grinding out try after try after try.

can a fast pc try 1 million seeds in a minute? sure why not. so 1000 x 1 million is a billion try in a minute. while a person can not try 1 grain a sand a minute . Right now the nearest sand to me is 3 miles away at Lowes. Once I get there 60 minutes later I did zero tries and the super computers did 60 billion seeds.. Yeah there are a lot of bags of sand at Lowes but I then need to walk to the next location . I would end up needing to live a really long time to check all that sand due to travel time to reach it and tons of grains of sand. If you factor in the need to walk all over the earth to get to all the sand it is closer than you said. And if you look at my post I did factor in me walking to get to the sand Grin

. That has to slow me down a lot