Timeline for Is it possible to brute force bitcoin address creation in order to steal money?
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| Jun 2, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Igor Soudakevitch | It took me three minutes... I'm still reeling from the experience... 'free bitcoins', guys, 'free bitcoins'. All in lower case, with a space and no punctuation. You can find the whole story here: igor.host/index.php/goldendustproject, with pictures and all... Whew! can't explain it myself | |
| Jun 30, 2013 at 20:11 | comment | added | Chris Moore | That would obviously be safer than using "sausage" as your passphrase, but not as safe as using a completely random 256 bit private key. Brute forcing a 6 word passphrase is easier than brute forcing an arbitrary 256 bit key. It's say your word list is 64k long (16 bits per word). Then your 6 word phrase has 16*6 = 96 bits on entropy. A random key has the full 160 bits (bitcoin addresses are derived from a 160 bit hash of the private key). | |
| Jun 30, 2013 at 15:30 | comment | added | knocte | what if instead of using such simple passphrases (dictionary based and 2 words at most) one would base its address from a 6 word passphrase with the majority of the words being non-existant in language dictionaries? | |
| Aug 6, 2012 at 16:24 | comment | added | Tomas | Really good explanation about "deterministic wallets". Thanks! | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 10:34 | comment | added | o0'. | +1 for the interesting (though pratically useless) take, for the sausage, and for the cool closing sentence. | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 8:52 | history | answered | Chris Moore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |