Is a bitcoin address collision possible if generating 90 million addresses every 4 hours?
I am running a test to see if I can obtain a successful bitcoin address collision after generating billions of addresses. I am not entirely sure how I would check them yet. Basically I have an extra 10TB hard drive and am running supervanitygen on my 32-core, 128gb ram linux work computer. It seems to be generating about 90,000,000 (90 million) addresses (address + private key pair) every 4 hours.
Do you think it's possible or likely to run into an address collision this way? Or perhaps if everyone in the world did the same thing? Or what if I waited 10-20 years, and then checked the addresses?
This is all just a test to see if the bitcoin system is secure enough for big investment decision.
security address-generation cryptography vanitygen key-collision
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I am running a test to see if I can obtain a successful bitcoin address collision after generating billions of addresses. I am not entirely sure how I would check them yet. Basically I have an extra 10TB hard drive and am running supervanitygen on my 32-core, 128gb ram linux work computer. It seems to be generating about 90,000,000 (90 million) addresses (address + private key pair) every 4 hours.
Do you think it's possible or likely to run into an address collision this way? Or perhaps if everyone in the world did the same thing? Or what if I waited 10-20 years, and then checked the addresses?
This is all just a test to see if the bitcoin system is secure enough for big investment decision.
security address-generation cryptography vanitygen key-collision
edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
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asked Jan 19 at 20:12
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Read this, and then do some math. How many addresses do you need to check before you're 1% likely to get a collision? ericlippert.com/2010/03/22/socks-birthdays-and-hash-collisions
– Eric Lippert
Jan 20 at 17:28
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I am running a test to see if I can obtain a successful bitcoin address collision after generating billions of addresses. I am not entirely sure how I would check them yet. Basically I have an extra 10TB hard drive and am running supervanitygen on my 32-core, 128gb ram linux work computer. It seems to be generating about 90,000,000 (90 million) addresses (address + private key pair) every 4 hours.
Do you think it's possible or likely to run into an address collision this way? Or perhaps if everyone in the world did the same thing? Or what if I waited 10-20 years, and then checked the addresses?
This is all just a test to see if the bitcoin system is secure enough for big investment decision.
security address-generation cryptography vanitygen key-collision
edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
35.2k27114329
asked Jan 19 at 20:12
Anonymous UserAnonymous User
384
I am running a test to see if I can obtain a successful bitcoin address collision after generating billions of addresses. I am not entirely sure how I would check them yet. Basically I have an extra 10TB hard drive and am running supervanitygen on my 32-core, 128gb ram linux work computer. It seems to be generating about 90,000,000 (90 million) addresses (address + private key pair) every 4 hours.
Do you think it's possible or likely to run into an address collision this way? Or perhaps if everyone in the world did the same thing? Or what if I waited 10-20 years, and then checked the addresses?
This is all just a test to see if the bitcoin system is secure enough for big investment decision.
security address-generation cryptography vanitygen key-collision
security address-generation cryptography vanitygen key-collision
edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
35.2k27114329
asked Jan 19 at 20:12
Anonymous UserAnonymous User
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edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
35.2k27114329
asked Jan 19 at 20:12
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edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
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edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
35.2k27114329
edited Jan 29 at 17:58
Murch♦
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Anonymous UserAnonymous User
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asked Jan 19 at 20:12
Anonymous UserAnonymous User
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asked Jan 19 at 20:12
Anonymous UserAnonymous User
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Read this, and then do some math. How many addresses do you need to check before you're 1% likely to get a collision? ericlippert.com/2010/03/22/socks-birthdays-and-hash-collisions
– Eric Lippert
Jan 20 at 17:28
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Read this, and then do some math. How many addresses do you need to check before you're 1% likely to get a collision? ericlippert.com/2010/03/22/socks-birthdays-and-hash-collisions
– Eric Lippert
Jan 20 at 17:28
1
1
Read this, and then do some math. How many addresses do you need to check before you're 1% likely to get a collision? ericlippert.com/2010/03/22/socks-birthdays-and-hash-collisions
– Eric Lippert
Jan 20 at 17:28
Read this, and then do some math. How many addresses do you need to check before you're 1% likely to get a collision? ericlippert.com/2010/03/22/socks-birthdays-and-hash-collisions
– Eric Lippert
Jan 20 at 17:28
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Because of the Birthday paradox, you only need 280 addresses (despite there existing 2160 different address combinations) before a collision becomes probable.
Thankfully, that is still an enormous number. At 90 million addresses per 4 hours, it will take about 445 times the age of the universe to reach that number.
It's also irrelevant. Even if anyone - or everyone - generates 90 million addresses per 4 hours, there aren't that many addresses receiving funds. Thus only actually used addresses matter.
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
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Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
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I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
4
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
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@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
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A very relevant answer can be found here: Is Each Bitcoin Address Unique?
This is a question of the birthday attack on the hashes. Bitcoin addresses (assuming the "normal" style starting with a 1) encode 160 bit hashes, so the output space has a possible 2^160 hashes. Because its a hash function, we assume all outputs have equal probability of being output.
At the rate you gave in the OP, you would generate 1.971 * 10^11 addresses in 1 year. Using the approximate birthday formula n^2 / 2H, the probability of a collision in 1 year is thus roughly on the order of 10^-26. That is, basically 0. In 20 years that probability becomes around the order of 10^-24. Still basically 0. If all 8 billion people in the world generated addresses at that rate for 20 years, in total 3.1536 * 10^22 addresses would be generated. Even then, the probability of a collision is only around 0.0003. And remember that a collision like this is completely different from a targeted attack to find the private key of a specific address. If there was a collision, chances are overwhelming that there would be no funds ever sent to the address anyway, making the attack useless.
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
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"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
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Because of the Birthday paradox, you only need 280 addresses (despite there existing 2160 different address combinations) before a collision becomes probable.
Thankfully, that is still an enormous number. At 90 million addresses per 4 hours, it will take about 445 times the age of the universe to reach that number.
It's also irrelevant. Even if anyone - or everyone - generates 90 million addresses per 4 hours, there aren't that many addresses receiving funds. Thus only actually used addresses matter.
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
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Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
1
I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
4
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
6
@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
add a comment |
Because of the Birthday paradox, you only need 280 addresses (despite there existing 2160 different address combinations) before a collision becomes probable.
Thankfully, that is still an enormous number. At 90 million addresses per 4 hours, it will take about 445 times the age of the universe to reach that number.
It's also irrelevant. Even if anyone - or everyone - generates 90 million addresses per 4 hours, there aren't that many addresses receiving funds. Thus only actually used addresses matter.
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
46.7k399157
9
Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
1
I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
4
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
6
@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
add a comment |
Because of the Birthday paradox, you only need 280 addresses (despite there existing 2160 different address combinations) before a collision becomes probable.
Thankfully, that is still an enormous number. At 90 million addresses per 4 hours, it will take about 445 times the age of the universe to reach that number.
It's also irrelevant. Even if anyone - or everyone - generates 90 million addresses per 4 hours, there aren't that many addresses receiving funds. Thus only actually used addresses matter.
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
46.7k399157
Because of the Birthday paradox, you only need 280 addresses (despite there existing 2160 different address combinations) before a collision becomes probable.
Thankfully, that is still an enormous number. At 90 million addresses per 4 hours, it will take about 445 times the age of the universe to reach that number.
It's also irrelevant. Even if anyone - or everyone - generates 90 million addresses per 4 hours, there aren't that many addresses receiving funds. Thus only actually used addresses matter.
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
46.7k399157
edited Jan 19 at 23:33
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
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answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
46.7k399157
answered Jan 19 at 20:28
Pieter WuillePieter Wuille
46.7k399157
46.7k399157
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Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
1
I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
4
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
6
@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
add a comment |
9
Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
1
I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
4
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
6
@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
9
9
Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
Also, in that case the collision would almost certainly be between two addresses you yourself generated... which isn't usually very useful for an attacker.
– G. Maxwell
Jan 19 at 20:36
1
1
I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
I'm confused at how you arrived at 2^80 for the birthday paradox. That's the square root of 2^160. Is that the calculation for all such schemes where the birthday paradox applies? In the wikipedia page, 23 marks the 50% line (is that what you mean be probable?), but it is 4 more than square root 366, a full 1% of the total more.
– fredsbend
Jan 20 at 1:09
4
4
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
@fredsbend, the actual formula for the birthday paradox is complicated, but as the numbers get bigger, taking the square root becomes an increasingly better approximation to it. When talking about cryptography, the numbers are so huge that the difference isn't worth worrying about.
– Mark
Jan 20 at 1:17
6
6
@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
@fredsbend Technically, the square root of the number of possibilities gives you a 39.3% probability for collisions (1-exp(-1/2)), that's about where you see the probability go from negligable to negligably not. 1/2 sqrt(n) gives you 11.75%. 2 sqrt(n) gives you 86.5%. In cryptography the exact factor is usually ignored, and we just say that you need approximately sqrt(n) elements to see a probable collision.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 20 at 1:17
add a comment |
A very relevant answer can be found here: Is Each Bitcoin Address Unique?
This is a question of the birthday attack on the hashes. Bitcoin addresses (assuming the "normal" style starting with a 1) encode 160 bit hashes, so the output space has a possible 2^160 hashes. Because its a hash function, we assume all outputs have equal probability of being output.
At the rate you gave in the OP, you would generate 1.971 * 10^11 addresses in 1 year. Using the approximate birthday formula n^2 / 2H, the probability of a collision in 1 year is thus roughly on the order of 10^-26. That is, basically 0. In 20 years that probability becomes around the order of 10^-24. Still basically 0. If all 8 billion people in the world generated addresses at that rate for 20 years, in total 3.1536 * 10^22 addresses would be generated. Even then, the probability of a collision is only around 0.0003. And remember that a collision like this is completely different from a targeted attack to find the private key of a specific address. If there was a collision, chances are overwhelming that there would be no funds ever sent to the address anyway, making the attack useless.
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
add a comment |
A very relevant answer can be found here: Is Each Bitcoin Address Unique?
This is a question of the birthday attack on the hashes. Bitcoin addresses (assuming the "normal" style starting with a 1) encode 160 bit hashes, so the output space has a possible 2^160 hashes. Because its a hash function, we assume all outputs have equal probability of being output.
At the rate you gave in the OP, you would generate 1.971 * 10^11 addresses in 1 year. Using the approximate birthday formula n^2 / 2H, the probability of a collision in 1 year is thus roughly on the order of 10^-26. That is, basically 0. In 20 years that probability becomes around the order of 10^-24. Still basically 0. If all 8 billion people in the world generated addresses at that rate for 20 years, in total 3.1536 * 10^22 addresses would be generated. Even then, the probability of a collision is only around 0.0003. And remember that a collision like this is completely different from a targeted attack to find the private key of a specific address. If there was a collision, chances are overwhelming that there would be no funds ever sent to the address anyway, making the attack useless.
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
add a comment |
A very relevant answer can be found here: Is Each Bitcoin Address Unique?
This is a question of the birthday attack on the hashes. Bitcoin addresses (assuming the "normal" style starting with a 1) encode 160 bit hashes, so the output space has a possible 2^160 hashes. Because its a hash function, we assume all outputs have equal probability of being output.
At the rate you gave in the OP, you would generate 1.971 * 10^11 addresses in 1 year. Using the approximate birthday formula n^2 / 2H, the probability of a collision in 1 year is thus roughly on the order of 10^-26. That is, basically 0. In 20 years that probability becomes around the order of 10^-24. Still basically 0. If all 8 billion people in the world generated addresses at that rate for 20 years, in total 3.1536 * 10^22 addresses would be generated. Even then, the probability of a collision is only around 0.0003. And remember that a collision like this is completely different from a targeted attack to find the private key of a specific address. If there was a collision, chances are overwhelming that there would be no funds ever sent to the address anyway, making the attack useless.
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
A very relevant answer can be found here: Is Each Bitcoin Address Unique?
This is a question of the birthday attack on the hashes. Bitcoin addresses (assuming the "normal" style starting with a 1) encode 160 bit hashes, so the output space has a possible 2^160 hashes. Because its a hash function, we assume all outputs have equal probability of being output.
At the rate you gave in the OP, you would generate 1.971 * 10^11 addresses in 1 year. Using the approximate birthday formula n^2 / 2H, the probability of a collision in 1 year is thus roughly on the order of 10^-26. That is, basically 0. In 20 years that probability becomes around the order of 10^-24. Still basically 0. If all 8 billion people in the world generated addresses at that rate for 20 years, in total 3.1536 * 10^22 addresses would be generated. Even then, the probability of a collision is only around 0.0003. And remember that a collision like this is completely different from a targeted attack to find the private key of a specific address. If there was a collision, chances are overwhelming that there would be no funds ever sent to the address anyway, making the attack useless.
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
answered Jan 19 at 20:39
MeshCollider♦MeshCollider
8,41531239
8,41531239
"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
add a comment |
"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
"A collision can't be a collision if there were no funds ever sent to the address" in regards to the last sentence of your answer. Other than that, great answer! Thank you!
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:25
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
@AnonymousUser You say you're able to generate 90 million addresses per 4 hours. MeshCollider is pointing out that that's actually irrelevant, as there aren't 90 million addresses being paid at that rate.
– Pieter Wuille
Jan 19 at 23:26
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
Oh gotcha, you may want to be more clear in that. Thanks again.
– Anonymous User
Jan 19 at 23:27
add a comment |
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Read this, and then do some math. How many addresses do you need to check before you're 1% likely to get a collision? ericlippert.com/2010/03/22/socks-birthdays-and-hash-collisions
– Eric Lippert
Jan 20 at 17:28