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The WarpWallet Challenge

by ok_craig on 11/27/13, 7:55 PM with 14 comments

• by sp332 on 11/27/13, 8:36 PM

  Is this an underhanded plot, to get people to drain all brainwallets with 8-character passphrases?

• by shocks on 11/27/13, 8:43 PM

  At 1000 addresses per second (probably wayyy to high) it'd take 6919 average Gregorian years[1] to check all possible passphrases.

  1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28%2826%2B26%2B10%...

• by nightcracker on 11/27/13, 9:33 PM

  Haha, I actually made this, indirectly!

  http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/11786/a-key-deriva...

  Shoutout to Max Krohn for actually asking though :)

• by thomaslutz on 11/27/13, 8:45 PM

  Nice, somebody already built a solving tool: http://gen.co:4567/