Skip to main content
Bitcoin

Return to Question

Improved Tags
Link
Saxtheowl
Saxtheowl
  • 2.8k
  • 9
  • 18
  • 35
Became Hot Network Question
added 1 character in body
Source Link
user100640
user100640

If we assume that there are ~2^96 private keys for EACH bitcoin address (2^256-160) and we assume that in cryptography it is considered good property of every hash function if it evenly distributes the values in its co-domain (co-domain of the SHA256 function is the domain of the RIPEMD160).

Does that means that HALF of the ~2^96 private keys is in first 21592^159 and other HALF is in 2^160 - 2^256 space?

If we assume that there are ~2^96 private keys for EACH bitcoin address (2^256-160) and we assume that in cryptography it is considered good property of every hash function if it evenly distributes the values in its co-domain (co-domain of the SHA256 function is the domain of the RIPEMD160).

Does that means that HALF of the ~2^96 private keys is in first 2159 and other HALF is in 2^160 - 2^256 space?

If we assume that there are ~2^96 private keys for EACH bitcoin address (2^256-160) and we assume that in cryptography it is considered good property of every hash function if it evenly distributes the values in its co-domain (co-domain of the SHA256 function is the domain of the RIPEMD160).

Does that means that HALF of the ~2^96 private keys is in first 2^159 and other HALF is in 2^160 - 2^256 space?

Source Link
user100640
user100640

Are BTC Private Keys evenly distributed in 256bit space?

If we assume that there are ~2^96 private keys for EACH bitcoin address (2^256-160) and we assume that in cryptography it is considered good property of every hash function if it evenly distributes the values in its co-domain (co-domain of the SHA256 function is the domain of the RIPEMD160).

Does that means that HALF of the ~2^96 private keys is in first 2159 and other HALF is in 2^160 - 2^256 space?