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legendary
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I'm not in the mood to tinker with Java code at the moment and since this basically breaks wallet importing for me can you make a patch to add the checksum characters

Done in version https://github.com/PawelGorny/WifSolver/releases/tag/v0.5.1
And multithreaded processing ;-)

(why previous post was deleted?)
legendary
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Merit: 6660
bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org
This part:
Code:
for (int m = 0; m < missing; m++) {
            sb.append("1");
        }
        byte[] bytes = Base58.decode(sb.toString());
        bytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(bytes, 1, bytes.length - 4);
        if (len == Configuration.COMPRESSED_WIF_LENGTH) {
            bytes[32] = 1;
        }
        String encoded = Base58.encodeChecked(128, bytes);

Later I process this WIF.
Of course it could be optimized somehow, like extract private key and test it as a key, not as a WIF, but as I said - I was never focused on this worker, so I kept it simple.

I'm not in the mood to tinker with Java code at the moment and since this basically breaks wallet importing for me can you make a patch to add the checksum characters in return for about 1% of the address reward sent to your donation address if LostWord manages to find it? (It's a 1.2BTC address, I'll ask him if he's ok with that)

As far as finding privkeys goes it is certainly working better than BitCrack or FinderOuter  Sad



(why previous post was deleted?)

I guess because it was extremely short https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5685/56853763.html
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1386
@PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine.

I think END is for single thread only, try to launch it with SEARCH, it is multithreaded.
How many characters are missing? Maybe this weekend I will add multithreading to END, to be honest I never had a serious case for it, so I was too lazy to do it for myself Wink

Anyway, if only end is missing and you are sure about the part you decoded, maybe bitcrack would be a better solution.

I'm missing 11 characters, but End mode is only putting 7 characters at the end of each private key. This has to be a bug, because these keys can't be imported because their format is invalid.

The idea is that I ignore last 4 characters and do not process them - because checksum part could be 'generated' based on decoded existing part. In other words - I prepare partial WIF (without checksum - in my version 4, but I think it could be 5 characters), I add any "stupid" characters just to have 52, I decode it ignoring incorrect checksum and encode again, receiving WIF with correct checksum this time.

This part:
Code:
for (int m = 0; m < missing; m++) {
            sb.append("1");
        }
        byte[] bytes = Base58.decode(sb.toString());
        bytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(bytes, 1, bytes.length - 4);
        if (len == Configuration.COMPRESSED_WIF_LENGTH) {
            bytes[32] = 1;
        }
        String encoded = Base58.encodeChecked(128, bytes);

Later I process this WIF.
Of course it could be optimized somehow, like extract private key and test it as a key, not as a WIF, but as I said - I was never focused on this worker, so I kept it simple.
legendary
Activity: 1568
Merit: 6660
bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org
@PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine.

I think END is for single thread only, try to launch it with SEARCH, it is multithreaded.
How many characters are missing? Maybe this weekend I will add multithreading to END, to be honest I never had a serious case for it, so I was too lazy to do it for myself Wink

Anyway, if only end is missing and you are sure about the part you decoded, maybe bitcrack would be a better solution.

I'm missing 11 characters, but End mode is only putting 7 characters at the end of each private key. This has to be a bug, because these keys can't be imported because their format is invalid.
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1386
@PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine.

I think END is for single thread only, try to launch it with SEARCH, it is multithreaded.
How many characters are missing? Maybe this weekend I will add multithreading to END, to be honest I never had a serious case for it, so I was too lazy to do it for myself Wink

Anyway, if only end is missing and you are sure about the part you decoded, maybe bitcrack would be a better solution.
legendary
Activity: 1568
Merit: 6660
bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org
@PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine.
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1386
what about '01' at the end, which indicates compressed WIF?

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif

OK that makes sense. The position where there was supposed to be the compression byte and checksum, and a small part of the privkey hex, is messed up because that portion of the private key was lost. I am trying to brute force the end of this guy's missing key.

So I should chop off another two hex chars at the end too.

Exactly.
What do you have? WIF without ending?
Let me know if https://github.com/PawelGorny/WifSolver would help.
legendary
Activity: 1568
Merit: 6660
bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org
what about '01' at the end, which indicates compressed WIF?

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif

OK that makes sense. The position where there was supposed to be the compression byte and checksum, and a small part of the privkey hex, is messed up because that portion of the private key was lost. I am trying to brute force the end of this guy's missing key.

So I should chop off another two hex chars at the end too.

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What do you have? WIF without ending?

Bingo.
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1386
Hi guys, I happened upon a private key hex while I was decoding a compressed (beginning with L) base58 WIF 52 characters long, that starts with 80 f3 and is 76 hex chars long.

I proceeded with removing the 8 checksum bytes at the end and this left me 68 hex chars, when the 80 at the beginning was removed I got 66 hex chars of a private key beginning with f3.

But I don't think the length is right, no? Private keys are supposed to be 64 hex characters long not 66. Is the F3 some kind of magic byte of sorts?

EDIT: it begins with 80 f3 not 80 fe.

what about '01' at the end, which indicates compressed WIF?

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif
legendary
Activity: 1568
Merit: 6660
bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org
Hi guys, I happened upon a private key hex while I was decoding a compressed (beginning with L) base58 WIF 52 characters long, that starts with 80 f3 and is 76 hex chars long.

I proceeded with removing the 8 checksum bytes at the end and this left me 68 hex chars, when the 80 at the beginning was removed I got 66 hex chars of a private key beginning with f3.

But I don't think the length is right, no? Private keys are supposed to be 64 hex characters long not 66. Is the F3 some kind of magic byte of sorts?

EDIT: it begins with 80 f3 not 80 fe.
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