Brian Erdelyi [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-01-31 📝 Original message:> See vanitygen. Yes, 8 ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-01-31
📝 Original message:> See vanitygen. Yes, 8 characters can be brute forced.
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Thank you for this reference. Interesting to see that there is a tool to generate a vanity bitcoin address.

I am still researching viruses that are designed to manipulate a bitcoin address. I suspect they are primitive in that they use a hardcoded rogue bitcoin address as opposed to dynamically generating one.

As a start, this would help protect against malware that uses a static rogue bitcoin address. The next thing would be for the malware to brute-force the legitimate bitcoin address and generate a rogue bitcoin address that would produce the same 8 digit code. Curious to know how long this brute force would take? Or perhaps, before converting to 8 digits there is some other hashing function that is performed.

Brian Erdelyi
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