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For finding interesting Ethereum addresses on the GPU (uses SHA3 instead of MD5) there's a tool called profanity. Amusingly the tool was archived by the author
by a1k0n 4y ago
For finding interesting Ethereum addresses on the GPU (uses SHA3 instead of MD5) there's a tool called profanity.
Amusingly the tool was archived by the author years ago, and just last year a stupid bug in the random initialization code was found (32 bytes of state initialized with ~31 bits of entropy), leading to ~millions of $ in stolen ETH by exploiters.
- ErikCorry 4y agoThe bug was in profanity?
- oddlama 4y agoI haven't looked at the project but would assume that several people generated their wallets by using this tool. The attackers were thus able to generate keys for existing wallets by simply bruteforcing the measly 31 bits that were used in the tool's random initialization.