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0 pointsbilkow9y ago0 comments

Aren't the adresses hashes of the _public_ key? Hashes of the private key doesn't make much sense to me, as clients never come to know them.

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pfg9y ago

Yep, that's right, thanks. The public key is, of course, calculated based on the private key (these are RSA keys), hence why the brute-forcing still involves the private key, but it's not a hash of that key.

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