Topic: We knew the Large Bitcoin Collider was useless, now we know it's also rootkit - page 2. (Read 1427 times)

I would like to see them work on cracking Satoshi's address or the genesis address. A password is hard enough to crack let alone a super crazy amount of combination of letters and numbers and not to mention that it has capitalized and non capitalized letters. This is is really BS  from the start.


I'll also look into this thread.

It was cited in a vice article on large bitcoin collider, published this month, which interviewed one of lbc's developers.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-large-bitcoin-collider-is-generating-trillions-of-keys-and-breaking-into-wallets

No evidence shown as far as I know, although vice probably did make an effort to confirm the identity of the person they were interviewing to ensure they were associated with lbc.


Thx for the info.

This is already being discussed on the project's thread, from here onwards.

I suppose now they did not show evidence for those claims? 5 in 100 is 1 in 20 trillion... it does not make sense even for me when I don't think I'm any good at statistics and maths.

Large bitcoin collider claims they generated 100 trillion keys and found 5 keys that worked.

I'm not sure I believe that.

A normal password with more than 8 digits can have trillions of possible combinations.

100 trillion keys doesn't seem like it would do anything.

ECDSA bitsize is twice of security. 256 bits gets you 128 bits of security. 

Good news is that bitcoin is still superman.

Rootkit?!?!?!?

SHEETTTTTTTTTTTT...!!!!

Apparently, the large bitcoin collider, a software that is meant to use vonlunteer's computing resources to list all the possbile private keys into a server also allows remote arbitrary code to be executed on computers that run it.

SopaXorzTaker made this post at Reddit explaining it.

Just in case somebody is wondering... No, it's not possible to list all the possible bitcoin private keys. ECDSA, the cryptography algorithm on which bitcoin private keys are based on, allows for 2²⁵⁶ possible private keys. Even if you had a computer of the size of the solar system, that used the sun as energy source and that you can cool at no extra energy cost, the sun will burn out before the computer counts up to 2²⁵⁶, let alone hashing and other math stuff which is also needed, only counting, 1...2...3...4...

This software uses the argument that private keys can be brute-forced to get people to run the software until all the private keys are exhausted and the bitcoin economy is ruined. Can't be more far from reality, this is impossible, breaking a bitcoin private key would imply by the mathematical state of art, breaking also several universe thermodynamic laws (something that only quantum computer may achieve).

So, summarizing, this software is not only useless, but also dangerous for your computer and security. Be careful. If you still have any doubt, extra reviews to the code are welcome.