Topic: Cold / Brain wallet security question - page 2. (Read 1836 times)
How about if you remember the last four digits and the first four digits?? That might help...i am not a math whiz but that must be more than 1 million possibilities
He'll try everything. He might get lucky. I dunno about you, but I'd rather not display the private key at all. You're better off encrypting it before printing it.
Even if it's only one digit aren't the possible combinations just as large as any other random key? Also an attacker doesn't know how many digits are changed. The question is are there attack vectors that utilize the fact that the public address is visible along with at least part of the private key?
One or more digits are different, but I have the rest of the private key? Someone is going to run a program against all the possibilities, and if it's below a few million someone will get the correct one.
Change more than one. Change maybe 30 digits.
Change more than one. Change maybe 30 digits.
If I have a private key written down somewhere and for further security change one or more of the digits and then have the public address from the resulting private key written next to it. How secure is that? Would a brute force attack or any other attack be easier or no?
Example private key 6108A178B39FF904C9F408741935554E042BDE257DB7F5621555175BACAC2A9C
Bitcoin Address 1GHVFk9HB2ke2UJsqTWWYiqVHemUyn8jTL
Example private key 6108A178B39FF904C9F408741935554E042BDE257DB7F5621555175BACAC2A9C
Bitcoin Address 1GHVFk9HB2ke2UJsqTWWYiqVHemUyn8jTL
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