Timeline for How does this OpenCL BTC private-key cracker work? Is it a real threat to bitcoins?
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| Jan 29, 2014 at 22:57 | vote | accept | greatwolf | ||
| Jan 29, 2014 at 6:29 | comment | added | David Schwartz | The argument that those keys are weak is flawed. A particular search algorithm happens to search those keys first, thus allowing it to break those keys more quickly. But if people stop using those keys because they are "weak", then the search algorithm will just start elsewhere, making those keys stronger and other keys weaker. If you avoid weak keys, then someone trying to break your key need not search any weak keys, making everyone's keys less secure. (ECDSA has no weak keys of the type that's actually weak unless your RNG is broken.) | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 1:12 | answer | added | Pieter Wuille | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 0:59 | answer | added | Etherealone | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 0:44 | history | asked | greatwolf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |