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Topic: partial wallet recovery usable ? (Read 567 times)

legendary
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November 28, 2013, 12:26:21 PM
#4
If you have some you should be able to crack them.

2^256 = 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 tries to brute force

If you have half:
2^128 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 tries to brute force

See the difference? #1 is impossible, #2 actually would take the bitcoin global hashing network like two days.

Wrong... #2 is also vastly out of reach of any current computational resources.
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November 26, 2013, 05:55:31 PM
#3
No I was wondering if pywallet gets all the keys or whether there is a better way to read the raw data and recognise the keys... ?
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Crypto Pros
November 26, 2013, 08:10:41 AM
#2
If you have some you should be able to crack them.

2^256 = 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 tries to brute force

If you have half:
2^128 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 tries to brute force

See the difference? #1 is impossible, #2 actually would take the bitcoin global hashing network like two days.
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November 26, 2013, 07:51:23 AM
#1
I formatted a drive with some coin on it, so I ran pytools and it gave me a partial wallet, which just seems to contain gibberish and fragments of hex. The bitcoin client won't accept it. Is there any way to get the keys with a hex editor ?
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