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> "wireguard-vanity-address[0] — generate Wireguard keypairs with a given prefix string" generating 4-5 character-prefixed keys seems to up the chances of coll
by clairity 7y ago
> "wireguard-vanity-address[0] — generate Wireguard keypairs with a given prefix string"
generating 4-5 character-prefixed keys seems to up the chances of collision by many orders of magnitude, right? but even so, is that enough of a concern to not use such a tool?
[0] https://github.com/warner/wireguard-vanity-address https://github.com/warner/wireguard-vanity-address
- devttyeu 7y agoIt doesn't, you still have to do the same amount of work to find the collisions.
- Znafon 7y agoIt's just a brute force so I think it should not matter. Once you find a public key that match what you are looking for you have the same amount of work to do to find the private key. It would be different if it was to generate a private key that matches the prefix.