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Old 10-28-2012   #7
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Originally Posted by VashTS View Post
i think we will need at least 2 variables in the list to calculate the private key.

like fail0verflow, they had public key (known) + the "random" variable (which was not random at all and discovered) = private key.

obviously a bit more complicated than that, but thats the gist of it i think, at least from what i've read.
u cant calculate the private key.
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