Recover a Bitcoin private key from its public key, in the browser

Recover a Bitcoin private key from its public key, in the browser(krackpot.io)

1 points by simonmales 47 days ago | 3 comments

simonmales 47 days ago |

Author here. I built this once learning about front running the Bitcoin puzzles.

seems cool -- wasn't there that guy searching through a trash heap for years searching for his thumb drive? guessing he didn't have the public key, or if he did this would've fixed his situation?

tromp 47 days ago | | |

You may have missed this part:

> What this does not show

> The attack above depends on conditions that ordinary Bitcoin keys do not meet.

> Ordinary Bitcoin keys are not affected by any of this

> A properly generated private key is spread across roughly 2 to the power of 256 possibilities. The square root of that is 2 to the power of 128, which is not attackable by anyone, with any budget, ever.