Quote from: LoyceV on May 28, 2018, 12:02:55 PM

Quote from: directoryio on May 28, 2018, 11:54:52 AM

I'm trying to find out if this was possible to start generation by 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000682141d5917f01f2

Why? Starting the search from a certain private key has been suggested before in Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22], but it's insecure to do.
Private keys can be reproduced if they aren't generated at random.

but would it be possible to do this anyway?
here is apparently the piece of code in question

Code:

if((fd=open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)) == 0) {
return;
}

/* Use 32 bytes from /dev/urandom as starting private key */
do {
if((len=read(0, privkey, 0)) != 0) {
return;
}
} while(privkey[0]+0 < 0); /* Ensure only valid private keys */

close(fd);

directoryio

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