ouch, I just learned something new. Thank you 
lol, does it always hurt when you learn something? that'd suck.
Topic: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] - page 171. (Read 1153620 times)
lol, does it always hurt when you learn something? that'd suck.
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Can a vanity address be hashed by one person for the sole purpose of giving it to another, along with the password, whereupon the new owner is able to change the password locking out the one who created it? If so, reply with a brief outline of how this is done or, at the very least, point me toward a post that explains this
We have discussed this at length above and it can be done as follows:
You create a standard private/public key pair and send just the public key to the second person and keep the private key secret.
Instead of creating new random key pairs from the standard starting point they create them from your public key point.
If they find the vanity public address you are looking for they can send you the vanity private and public keys they created based on the public key you sent them.
You can then multiply the private key they send you and the private key you kept secret together to get the final private key for the vanity address.
The person that worked on the project for you has no way of knowing the final private key. You are the only one that can know it because you are the only one that has both the private keys needed to muliply together to get the final private key for the vanity public address.
I'll try this when i finished my mining.
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Can a vanity address be hashed by one person for the sole purpose of giving it to another, along with the password, whereupon the new owner is able to change the password locking out the one who created it? If so, reply with a brief outline of how this is done or, at the very least, point me toward a post that explains this
We have discussed this at length above and it can be done as follows:
You create a standard private/public key pair and send just the public key to the second person and keep the private key secret.
Instead of creating new random key pairs from the standard starting point they create them from your public key point.
If they find the vanity public address you are looking for they can send you the vanity private and public keys they created based on the public key you sent them.
You can then multiply the private key they send you and the private key you kept secret together to get the final private key for the vanity address.
The person that worked on the project for you has no way of knowing the final private key. You are the only one that can know it because you are the only one that has both the private keys needed to muliply together to get the final private key for the vanity public address.
Judging by the following tool in the contrib directory, the command is:
Code:
bitcoind walletpassphrase [passphrase] [time in minutes]
Good luck!
Ok, n00b question. I'm getting a
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error: couldn't connect to server
Running on Win7, not launching as Admin, but bitcoind given all access through firewall. It runs fine if I run bitcoind by itself without any parameters.
I guess I need to know how to send it RPC commands after I launch it, or something. Please help
Sweet! Thanks guys!
I like it when a plan comes together.
Now, I have a question. (may have been addressed in this long thread, so sorry for asking again)
Can a vanity address be hashed by one person for the sole purpose of giving it to another, along with the password, whereupon the new owner is able to change the password locking out the one who created it? If so, reply with a brief outline of how this is done or, at the very least, point me toward a post that explains this.
~Bruno~
Full version: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key
Hope this helps.
Sweet! Thanks guys!
I like it when a plan comes together.
Now, I have a question. (may have been addressed in this long thread, so sorry for asking again)
Can a vanity address be hashed by one person for the sole purpose of giving it to another, along with the password, whereupon the new owner is able to change the password locking out the one who created it? If so, reply with a brief outline of how this is done or, at the very least, point me toward a post that explains this.
~Bruno~
Sweet! Thanks guys!
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/
or you could use the comandline options and unlock your wallet for 10-15 minutes, enough time to import few private keys with pywallet
I ca't find the command line to do this. Can you help please?
Code:
bitcoind walletpassphrase [passphrase] [time in minutes]
Good luck!
exactly, only thing time is entered in seconds
Forgot the tool, duh.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/contrib/wallettools/walletunlock.py
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/contrib/wallettools/walletunlock.py
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/
or you could use the comandline options and unlock your wallet for 10-15 minutes, enough time to import few private keys with pywallet
I ca't find the command line to do this. Can you help please?
Code:
bitcoind walletpassphrase [passphrase] [time in minutes]
Good luck!
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/
or you could use the comandline options and unlock your wallet for 10-15 minutes, enough time to import few private keys with pywallet
I ca't find the command line to do this. Can you help please?
ouch, I just learned something new. Thank you
np, i could use some help too on the p2p forum, sent you a pm
ouch, I just learned something new. Thank you
I tried 1I and it showed this error:
Invalid character 'I' in prefix '1I'
I also tried with a char like "à" but it didn't work well.
Are there some chars that aren't allowed? ( or are them bugs? )
Invalid character 'I' in prefix '1I'
I also tried with a char like "à" but it didn't work well.
Are there some chars that aren't allowed? ( or are them bugs? )
bitcoin addresses use base58 encoding link, so you will have have to stick with that charmap
I tried 1I and it showed this error:
Invalid character 'I' in prefix '1I'
I also tried with a char like "à" but it didn't work well.
Are there some chars that aren't allowed? ( or are them bugs? )
Invalid character 'I' in prefix '1I'
I also tried with a char like "à" but it didn't work well.
Are there some chars that aren't allowed? ( or are them bugs? )
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/
or you could use the comandline options and unlock your wallet for 10-15 minutes, enough time to import few private keys with pywallet
Oh I didn't realize that it worked like that. I am going to have to do some experimenting now.
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/
or you could use the comandline options and unlock your wallet for 10-15 minutes, enough time to import few private keys with pywallet
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
It doesn't, but you can create a new unencrypted one, import your address, and move all your money out of the encrypted one, before encrypting the new one. Don't know if there is a way to extract keys out of encrypted wallets though :/
I got oclvanitygen running on my miner just for fun.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
Fibonachi: 11235813yoNV9F45KjwRiBYnYFufMunTj8
I was originally going to try for 1123581321, but that would take a few years with just one of my graphics cards trying it. I'd rather make coins with that much time.
I would still love an easy way to import these keys besides with strongcoin. I don't think pywallet supports the encrypted wallet format yet.
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