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Title: New private key generation Post by: BitcoinTip on March 28, 2013, 01:48:45 AM I am interested on one aspect of the regular qt client: private key generation.
Where can I find the code responsible for this? I am assuming some form of random number generation is done here. I intend to research into the function used and look for patterns. Perhaps a more reliable means than pure brute force could be designed to harvest private keys. Title: Re: New private key generation Post by: fpgaminer on March 28, 2013, 10:56:48 PM https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/key.cpp#L177 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/key.cpp#L177)
Quote Perhaps a more reliable means than pure brute force could be designed to harvest private keys. Contact the OpenSSL devs if you find anything: http://www.openssl.org/support/ (http://www.openssl.org/support/)As well as the implementors of /dev/urandom |