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Title: Is it possible that bitadress.org creates a Priv Key that dont match Public Key? Post by: Spekulatius on April 24, 2013, 09:41:02 PM As I said, is it possible that bitaddress.org creates private keys that dont match the public keys it generates?
It would be quite horrible if you sent a large amount of Bitcoins to an address with a faulty private key! I wonder if it is possible and/or has happened in the past that bitaddress.org, the program I am using for it has such a defect. Thx Title: Re: Is it possible that bitadress.org creates a Priv Key that dont match Public Key? Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 25, 2013, 01:07:20 AM As I said, is it possible that bitaddress.org creates private keys that dont match the public keys it generates? It would be quite horrible if you sent a large amount of Bitcoins to an address with a faulty private key! I wonder if it is possible and/or has happened in the past that bitaddress.org, the program I am using for it has such a defect. There was a bug with v2.1's vanity address code. It was discovered fairly quickly and I'm not aware of anyone having lost any funds from it: The fix is now live as part of v2.2: https://www.bitaddress.org/bitaddress.org-v2.2-SHA1-d414530eea984e9ebdd40dc27af9078cd73dc3b3.html - critical bug fix to Vanity Wallet multiplication of a public key with a private key. Bug was due to incorrect construction of BigInteger object. Which results in the incorrect Bitcoin Address being displayed. Therefore, v2.1 has been taken offline. Nobody has ever reported a paper wallet with the claim that the Bitcoin address didn't correspond to the private key. You can check using BrainWallet: - http://brainwallet.org <--- Click "Private Key" then paste. Can be used Offline as well. |