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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: FandangledGizmo on March 30, 2013, 05:05:48 PM



Title: How hard 2 crack address & key if both slightly altered?
Post by: FandangledGizmo on March 30, 2013, 05:05:48 PM
If you copied an address and private key onto a document but randomly changed 1 character in the address and 1 different random character in the private key.


How hard do you think it would it be to crack?
 

Thanks



Title: Re: How hard would it be to crack address
Post by: kokjo on March 30, 2013, 05:08:18 PM
If you copied an address and private key onto a document but randomly changed 1 character in the address and 1 different random character in the private key.


How hard do you think it would it be to crack?
 

Thanks


extremely gross overestimate 256*256 = 65536 combinations to try -> less then a second on a average computer 


Title: Re: How hard 2 crack address & key if both slightly altered?
Post by: Deafboy on March 30, 2013, 05:11:54 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

But you have just revealed your plan and most of the bitcoin community can decrypt your key if they find it ;)