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Title: List of compromised private keys? Post by: BitcoinHawaii on December 16, 2013, 07:51:22 AM Has anybody compiled a list of publicly compromised private keys?
e.g. whatever private key (too lazy to find out) that corresponds to the 'correct horse battery staple' public address: https://blockchain.info/address/1JwSSubhmg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T (https://blockchain.info/address/1JwSSubhmg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T) is obviously publicly known. I believe such a list would be beneficial to the community as it could be used as a database that clients could reference and prevent naive users from potentially big mistakes. Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: amaclin on August 03, 2014, 06:15:51 AM http://chbs.esy.es/
discussion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=721436.0 Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: btcguys on August 03, 2014, 06:22:55 AM if you plan on storing bitcoins then you may use my guide to create paper wallet by going to my site and then clicking on blog in my signature
Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: odolvlobo on August 03, 2014, 07:19:34 PM Such a list would generally not be useful since the chances of any decent key generator generating a "compromised" key is practically 0.
Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: Omikifuse on August 03, 2014, 10:36:28 PM Such a list would generally not be useful since the chances of any decent key generator generating a "compromised" key is practically 0. Would maybe be usefull to services that accept bitcoin don't accept money that might has been stolen. If that list exists, the sites may be sued cause of this. Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: silvestar on August 04, 2014, 02:03:53 PM Has anybody compiled a list of publicly compromised private keys? e.g. whatever private key (too lazy to find out) that corresponds to the 'correct horse battery staple' public address: https://blockchain.info/address/1JwSSubhmg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T (https://blockchain.info/address/1JwSSubhmg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T) is obviously publicly known. I believe such a list would be beneficial to the community as it could be used as a database that clients could reference and prevent naive users from potentially big mistakes. I remember reading a post long time ago that someone has generated thousands and thousands of brainwallets with common words and created a script to move the bitcoin sent to them within a few seconds. So, you should never create a brainwallet with common words. Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: silvestar on August 04, 2014, 02:07:24 PM Would maybe be usefull to services that accept bitcoin don't accept money that might has been stolen. If that list exists, the sites may be sued cause of this. IMO, that won't work at all. People will probably just mix their stolen bitcoin more carefully, and you can't find the owners of the mixing services. Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: amaclin on August 04, 2014, 02:10:06 PM Quote someone has generated thousands and thousands of brainwallets with common words yes. these private keys are in my database. (i am not that person who funded these addresses in 2013)Title: Re: List of compromised private keys? Post by: ensurance982 on August 04, 2014, 03:18:00 PM http://chbs.esy.es/ discussion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=721436.0 Wow, I didn't know such a list existed! This is interesting. Although that site requires you to solve a captcha in order to retrieve the private key. It would be better for software solutions that intend to warn their users about a compromised key to be able to have a locally accessable database! |