Title: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: NotATether on April 23, 2021, 11:53:35 AM Hi guys, I happened upon a private key hex while I was decoding a compressed (beginning with L) base58 WIF 52 characters long, that starts with 80 f3 and is 76 hex chars long.
I proceeded with removing the 8 checksum bytes at the end and this left me 68 hex chars, when the 80 at the beginning was removed I got 66 hex chars of a private key beginning with f3. But I don't think the length is right, no? Private keys are supposed to be 64 hex characters long not 66. Is the F3 some kind of magic byte of sorts? EDIT: it begins with 80 f3 not 80 fe. Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: PawGo on April 23, 2021, 12:00:53 PM Hi guys, I happened upon a private key hex while I was decoding a compressed (beginning with L) base58 WIF 52 characters long, that starts with 80 f3 and is 76 hex chars long. I proceeded with removing the 8 checksum bytes at the end and this left me 68 hex chars, when the 80 at the beginning was removed I got 66 hex chars of a private key beginning with f3. But I don't think the length is right, no? Private keys are supposed to be 64 hex characters long not 66. Is the F3 some kind of magic byte of sorts? EDIT: it begins with 80 f3 not 80 fe. what about '01' at the end, which indicates compressed WIF? https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: NotATether on April 23, 2021, 12:05:41 PM what about '01' at the end, which indicates compressed WIF? https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif OK that makes sense. The position where there was supposed to be the compression byte and checksum, and a small part of the privkey hex, is messed up because that portion of the private key was lost. I am trying to brute force the end of this guy's missing key (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5331951.0). So I should chop off another two hex chars at the end too. Quote What do you have? WIF without ending? Bingo. Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: PawGo on April 23, 2021, 12:07:08 PM what about '01' at the end, which indicates compressed WIF? https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/wif OK that makes sense. The position where there was supposed to be the compression byte and checksum, and a small part of the privkey hex, is messed up because that portion of the private key was lost. I am trying to brute force the end of this guy's missing key (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5331951.0). So I should chop off another two hex chars at the end too. Exactly. What do you have? WIF without ending? Let me know if https://github.com/PawelGorny/WifSolver would help. Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: NotATether on April 23, 2021, 12:29:55 PM @PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine.
Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: PawGo on April 23, 2021, 12:34:53 PM @PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine. I think END is for single thread only, try to launch it with SEARCH, it is multithreaded. How many characters are missing? Maybe this weekend I will add multithreading to END, to be honest I never had a serious case for it, so I was too lazy to do it for myself ;) Anyway, if only end is missing and you are sure about the part you decoded, maybe bitcrack would be a better solution. Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: NotATether on April 23, 2021, 04:56:01 PM @PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine. I think END is for single thread only, try to launch it with SEARCH, it is multithreaded. How many characters are missing? Maybe this weekend I will add multithreading to END, to be honest I never had a serious case for it, so I was too lazy to do it for myself ;) Anyway, if only end is missing and you are sure about the part you decoded, maybe bitcrack would be a better solution. I'm missing 11 characters, but End mode is only putting 7 characters at the end of each private key. This has to be a bug, because these keys can't be imported because their format is invalid. Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: PawGo on April 23, 2021, 05:05:26 PM @PawGo, slightly off topic but is your solver multithreaded? Default config is only using one thread on my machine. I think END is for single thread only, try to launch it with SEARCH, it is multithreaded. How many characters are missing? Maybe this weekend I will add multithreading to END, to be honest I never had a serious case for it, so I was too lazy to do it for myself ;) Anyway, if only end is missing and you are sure about the part you decoded, maybe bitcrack would be a better solution. I'm missing 11 characters, but End mode is only putting 7 characters at the end of each private key. This has to be a bug, because these keys can't be imported because their format is invalid. The idea is that I ignore last 4 characters and do not process them - because checksum part could be 'generated' based on decoded existing part. In other words - I prepare partial WIF (without checksum - in my version 4, but I think it could be 5 characters), I add any "stupid" characters just to have 52, I decode it ignoring incorrect checksum and encode again, receiving WIF with correct checksum this time. This part: Code: for (int m = 0; m < missing; m++) { Later I process this WIF. Of course it could be optimized somehow, like extract private key and test it as a key, not as a WIF, but as I said - I was never focused on this worker, so I kept it simple. Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: NotATether on April 23, 2021, 05:54:41 PM This part: Code: for (int m = 0; m < missing; m++) { Later I process this WIF. Of course it could be optimized somehow, like extract private key and test it as a key, not as a WIF, but as I said - I was never focused on this worker, so I kept it simple. I'm not in the mood to tinker with Java code at the moment and since this basically breaks wallet importing for me can you make a patch to add the checksum characters in return for about 1% of the address reward sent to your donation address if LostWord manages to find it? (It's a 1.2BTC address, I'll ask him if he's ok with that) As far as finding privkeys goes it is certainly working better than BitCrack or FinderOuter :( (why previous post was deleted?) I guess because it was extremely short https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5685/56853763.html Title: Re: Compressed hex private key with 66 characters? Post by: PawGo on April 23, 2021, 09:35:40 PM I'm not in the mood to tinker with Java code at the moment and since this basically breaks wallet importing for me can you make a patch to add the checksum characters Done in version https://github.com/PawelGorny/WifSolver/releases/tag/v0.5.1 And multithreaded processing ;-) (why previous post was deleted?) |