> See vanitygen. Yes, 8 characters can be brute forced.
>
Thank you for this reference. Interesting to see that there is a tool to
generate a vanity bitcoin address.
I am still researching viruses that are designed to manipulate a bitcoin
address. I suspect they are primitive in that they use a hardcoded rogue
bitcoin address as opposed to dynamically generating one.
As a start, this would help protect against malware that uses a static rogue
bitcoin address. The next thing would be for the malware to brute-force the
legitimate bitcoin address and generate a rogue bitcoin address that would
produce the same 8 digit code. Curious to know how long this brute force would
take? Or perhaps, before converting to 8 digits there is some other hashing
function that is performed.
Brian Erdelyi
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