📅 Original date posted:2016-08-11
📝 Original message:On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Still not sure how you can take a BIP32 public seed and figure out if an
> address was derived from it though. I mean, wouldn't I have to compute all
> 2^31 possible public child addresses?
Which would take a quad core laptop about 8 hours with competent software
And presumably you're not using the whole 2^31 space else the receiver
also has to do that computation...
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 17:52:38
in reply to nevent1q…222z
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2023-06-07 17:52:38Event JSON
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