Bitcoin Forum

Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: Bazil on August 08, 2011, 02:10:41 AM



Title: Guessing private keys
Post by: Bazil on August 08, 2011, 02:10:41 AM
I once read, on twitter I think, it may be possible to mine for lost wallet private keys to get long lost BTC.  Made me wonder would it be possible to steal people's BTC by guessing their private key?


Title: Re: Guessing private keys
Post by: Maged on August 08, 2011, 02:14:15 AM
Let's not start this again.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Generating_tons_of_addresses

Feel free to search the forum for more discussion.