yeah, I'm not confident anymore about the security of Bitcoin and secp256k1, especially when the solvers of these large keys are not willing to share what methods they used to reveal the private keys, the whole purpose of this challenge is to prove the immunity of the math behind bitcoin from any attack, so when someone is able to solve the challenge and not coming out to explain the method, this is basically telling us that someone knows a backdoor.
Code:
import subprocess
import time
tr=21267647932558650000000000000000000000
with open(r"C:\Users\S\Desktop\Collider-1.7.8\kl.txt","w") as f:
for x in range(2**65):
kl = ice.point_addition(pub, ice.point_negation(ice.scalar_multiplication(tr))).hex()
tr += 10000000000000000000000
f.write(kl)
if x % 2000000 == 0:
args = ['C:\\Users\\S\\Desktop\\Collider-1.7.8\\Collider.exe', '-t', '512', '-b', '72', '-p', '306', '-pk', '10000000000000000', '-pke', '1ffffffffffffffff', '-w', '28', '-htsz', '27', '-infile', 'kl.txt']
proc = subprocess.run(args, cwd=r'C:\Users\S\Desktop\Collider-1.7.8')
import time
tr=21267647932558650000000000000000000000
with open(r"C:\Users\S\Desktop\Collider-1.7.8\kl.txt","w") as f:
for x in range(2**65):
kl = ice.point_addition(pub, ice.point_negation(ice.scalar_multiplication(tr))).hex()
tr += 10000000000000000000000
f.write(kl)
if x % 2000000 == 0:
args = ['C:\\Users\\S\\Desktop\\Collider-1.7.8\\Collider.exe', '-t', '512', '-b', '72', '-p', '306', '-pk', '10000000000000000', '-pke', '1ffffffffffffffff', '-w', '28', '-htsz', '27', '-infile', 'kl.txt']
proc = subprocess.run(args, cwd=r'C:\Users\S\Desktop\Collider-1.7.8')
Simple math. The only difference is how fast you can apply it.
How is it simple maths? are you among those that got #120 & #125? why is those with exposed PubKey easier than others like #66
PS: Maybe the creator of this puzzle can spend from other addresses (like randomly the odd numbers from 100 below) to see how fast our BSGS can go and to make the puzzle less difficult. We have been here since 2015 or so and alot of us has put in so much to get to here
