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Topic: Armory number of possible wallets (Read 607 times)

legendary
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Armory Developer
December 25, 2013, 04:42:53 PM
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The ID is extracted from the first few bytes of the first public address in your wallet. That value is then encoded in base58, so it may not necessarily be 9 characters long.

ID collisions is a possibility but rather abysmal. The chance of actual wallet collision is the same as 256 bits integer collision, i.e. not gonna happen.
member
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December 25, 2013, 01:28:47 PM
#1
My wallet ID is 9 digits long. Numbers and letters

Does this mean that there are only 62^9 possible wallets?

(That would be about 10^16)

That is within the power of computers to crack.

Or is it possible for different wallets to have a "collision" and just have the same wallet ID?
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