partial wallet recovery usable ?

[notNigel]

I formatted a drive with some coin on it, so I ran pytools and it gave me a partial wallet, which just seems to contain gibberish and fragments of hex. The bitcoin client won't accept it. Is there any way to get the keys with a hex editor ?

[fligen]

If you have some you should be able to crack them.

2^256 = 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 tries to brute force

If you have half:
2^128 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 tries to brute force

See the difference? #1 is impossible, #2 actually would take the bitcoin global hashing network like two days.

[notNigel]

No I was wondering if pywallet gets all the keys or whether there is a better way to read the raw data and recognise the keys... ?

[flatfly]

If you have some you should be able to crack them.

2^256 = 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 tries to brute force

If you have half:
2^128 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 tries to brute force

See the difference? #1 is impossible, #2 actually would take the bitcoin global hashing network like two days.

Wrong... #2 is also vastly out of reach of any current computational resources.