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Re: Generating the private and public keys 100% offline
by
Medusah
on 02/06/2024, 10:29:52 UTC
Your question essentially boils down to whether someone can find a RIPEMD-160 collision.  Your address is a hash of your public key.  An attacker doesn't need to discover your private key, which has a probability of approximately 1 in 2256.  They need to find a private key whose public key generates the same 160-bit RIPEMD hash as yours.  The odds of this happening are 1 in 2160.

This is still  astronomically large.  You can rest assured that your coins are safe.