Damaged or Partial WIF? I can recover up to 25 missing characters.

[WanderingPhilospher]

Have a damaged or partial WIF? Can't make out all the characters?

If you need help recovering missing/non-legible characters, I can help.

I know there are many programs out there to help, most are really fast recovering 1-8, sometimes 9 missing characters.

I can recover up to 22 missing characters in a few hours.  Missing more than 22, I can try and recover up to 25.

(Edit): Each case is different, sometimes recovering 24 characters is easier than recovering 16 characters, it all depends on the position in which they are missing.

Two limitations, the characters missing need to be at the end or in the middle.

Examples:
5Yli2983xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
5Ylixxxxxxxxxxxx34879efr

And you must know the public key (or the actual address and have sent money from this address; we can look for public key that way)

Edit 2: If the characters are missing from the end, with a max of 15 characters, no public key is required.

What's the cost? It's on a case by case basis. You can PM or post what you have and I can take a look at it and let you know the difficulty of your situation and we can go from there.

Comment below or PM if you need help and we can discuss specifics and then settle on price.

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[LoyceV]

I can recover up to 22 missing characters in a few hours.  Missing more than 22, I can try and recover up to 25.

Two limitations, the characters missing need to be at the end or in the middle.
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And you must know the public key

Can you give a demonstration?
5JCbb1????????????????????S2osDc4M4rqwjX1P1MeNArc1f
04B637A820B12A5578A6141DAE3EE8295FF11DC7C44DD289E35ECBC1C5E3D1BECDB042B2C892305 7E740E5086229FB5D9FD58F8EDBC66E046D3BE296EB84898680

we can discuss specifics and then settle on price.

I'm not paying for this, but if you can restore the missing 20 characters in a reasonable amount of time, it proves you can do it.
Note: the address is not funded.

[WanderingPhilospher]

Can you give a demonstration?
5JCbb1??S2osDc4M4rqwjX1P1MeNArc1f
04B637A820B12A5578A6141DAE3EE8295FF11DC7C44DD289E35ECBC1C5E3D1BECDB042B2C892305 7E740E5086229FB5D9FD58F8EDBC66E046D3BE296EB84898680

we can discuss specifics and then settle on price.

I'm not paying for this, but if you can restore the missing 20 characters in a reasonable amount of time, it proves you can do it.
Note: the address is not funded.

Just now seeing this, will start now.
Edit: Ok, after reviewing the initial missing characters, I would have to search several different parameters because the checksum is off; and because you have your missing characters so far to the right (which comes out to about a 118 bit range), I could do it without checking different keys for checksum but it would take longer.  I will try a few different settings, but won't exhaust the list because this is just a "demo".

Perhaps send another key for a demo where all missing characters are from the end...quickest way, for a demo.

[LoyceV]

Perhaps send another key for a demo where all missing characters are from the end...quickest way, for a demo.

I removed only 20 instead of 22 characters. I figured removing the last characters (including the checksum) would be too easy, and I didn't want to make it too easy.
But still, 20 should be much easier to brute-force than 22 missing characters. About 58² timer easier.
I won't give another one as a demo, this one was within your requirements. I'd be impressed if you can recover this key though.

[WanderingPhilospher]

Perhaps send another key for a demo where all missing characters are from the end...quickest way, for a demo.

I removed only 20 instead of 22 characters. I figured removing the last characters (including the checksum) would be too easy, and I didn't want to make it too easy.
But still, 20 should be much easier to brute-force than 22 missing characters. About 58² timer easier.
I won't give another one as a demo, this one was within your requirements. I'd be impressed if you can recover this key though.

Understood...just can't do that one as an "out the gate" demo.
Brute force?! No way I would try to brute force that many missing characters. You think someone could brute force 20 characters in under an hour? If so, I'd like to know their methods.
Recovering that key could be done, but not for a free demo. Would require a few more resources and time (as does most things).
All good, thanks for the tough first challenge! I also tweaked the verbiage above to better reflect.

[WanderingPhilospher]

Edit 3: No public key is required if the characters are missing from the end, up to 14 characters.

[Edwardard]

Perhaps send another key for a demo where all missing characters are from the end...quickest way, for a demo.

Ok then, let me send you a WIF key for demonstration.

"KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

From ...xxx the characters are missing (13 missing characters in total).

Brute force?! No way I would try to brute force that many missing characters.

What is your method of cracking the keys? Curious to know here lol. I can understand that you wont like to share anyways.

[WanderingPhilospher]

Perhaps send another key for a demo where all missing characters are from the end...quickest way, for a demo.

Ok then, let me send you a WIF key for demonstration.

"KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

From ...xxx the characters are missing (13 missing characters in total).

Brute force?! No way I would try to brute force that many missing characters.

What is your method of cracking the keys? Curious to know here lol. I can understand that you wont like to share anyways.

If you give me the address associated with WIF "KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx", it should be fairly easy to find.

In the WIF you sent, I would brute force it rather quickly, in a few minutes, at most.

If it were more characters, or in the middle, but you knew the public key, I would use Kangaroo method.

Send me the address for "KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and I will post results.

Thanks!

[Edwardard]

Perhaps send another key for a demo where all missing characters are from the end...quickest way, for a demo.

Ok then, let me send you a WIF key for demonstration.

"KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

From ...xxx the characters are missing (13 missing characters in total).

Brute force?! No way I would try to brute force that many missing characters.

What is your method of cracking the keys? Curious to know here lol. I can understand that you wont like to share anyways.

If you give me the address associated with WIF "KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx", it should be fairly easy to find.

In the WIF you sent, I would brute force it rather quickly, in a few minutes, at most.

If it were more characters, or in the middle, but you knew the public key, I would use Kangaroo method.

Send me the address for "KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and I will post results.

Thanks!

Ok, but which format would you prefer ? I got three types: bech32, legacy and p2sh formats associated with the same key.
I will post the legacy one for reference anyway: 1FTFbf2PnYWWeZXzJRgwH7PBvgmGWNCexp
Let me know how long it took for you to find the missing characters for it.

[WanderingPhilospher]

I will post the legacy one for reference anyway: 1FTFbf2PnYWWeZXzJRgwH7PBvgmGWNCexp
Let me know how long it took for you to find the missing characters for it.

It took less than 10 seconds...WIF = KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqRv6rdc6aTqVjT

Thank you for giving me a demo.

Code:

VBCr v2.00
 Search For: 1FTFbf2PnYWWeZXzJRgwH7PBvgmGWNCexp [Compressed]
 Started on: Tue Feb  7 04:49:55 2023
 Randomness: New Random Keys Every 2900 Mkeys
  Beg Range: 6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B041359840E79F4 (251 bit)
  End Range: 6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04136B50B0E865 (251 bit)
  Rng Width: 11CCA26E71 (37 bit)
CPU Threads: 0
GPU: GPU #0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (24x64 cores) Grid(480x512)

Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135E256921D7
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135F05F322C6
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135C8DDA29F7
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135A3D53CA9E
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135CA99968C5
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135EDB28B1CB
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B041368AC5263EF
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B04135A64BC5D0C
Random Key :  6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B041362F4EF7593
 [00:00:00:04 Run Time][Total 610.07 MK/s][GPU 610.07 MK/s][Keys 2,516,582,400][Found 0][Rekeys: 0]

PubAddress: 1FTFbf2PnYWWeZXzJRgwH7PBvgmGWNCexp
Priv (WIF): p2pkh: KwSWMT4eaArp8xEqixRJ8B2T2Gw8yQa3tPCRGtqRv6rdc6aTqVjT
Priv (HEX): 6952F63D8F95B2F182E0FC8F9D50AA23A7ADA29FD27B3859B041361297CBC98 (251 bit)