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What's the possibility someone brute forced his private key?
by oxalo 11y ago
What's the possibility someone brute forced his private key?
- maxerickson 11y agoRoughly 0.
- valarauca1 11y agoHighly unlikely. Bitcoin private keys are 256bit ECDSA keys. The largest key (publically broken) of this type is ~114bit PS3 hardware key which took 17 months on ~2600 systems. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#Key_sizes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#Ke...