Special Subsets of Addresses for Blockchains Using the <i>secp256k1</i> Curve

Special Subsets of Addresses for Blockchains Using the <i>secp256k1</i> Curve

In 2020, Sala, Sogiorno and Taufer were able to find the private keys of some Bitcoin addresses, thus being able to spend the cryptocurrency linked to them. This was unexpected since the recovery of non-trivial private keys for blockchain addresses is deemed to be an infeasible problem. In this pape...

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Main Authors: Antonio J. Di Scala, Andrea Gangemi, Giuliano Romeo, Gabriele Vernetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-08-01
Series:Mathematics
Subjects:
cryptography
blockchain
Bitcoin
elliptic curves
subsets analysis
addresses
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/15/2746

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