Special Subsets of Addresses for Blockchains Using the secp256k1 Curve
Special Subsets of Addresses for Blockchains Using the secp256k1 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 paper, …