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I've been wondering how long it would take to generate all Ethereum private keys with addresses on my laptop.

I know there is not enough energy in our star system to do this in a reasonable timeframe, even on an imaginative computer that would use the absolute minimum of energy possible. This was more of a learning experience for me to get to know more about SHA-3 and KECCAK hashes, ECDSA curves, Public Keys and Ethereum addresses.

Due to its slow interpreter, Python is usually not a good choice when it comes to writing performant applications. The exception being Python modules which use an interface that calls C/C++ code. These modules are usually very fast, popular examples are Tensorflow and Numpy. To generate Ethereum addresses we can use the following two Python modules which are both C based and have a good performance:

Hi I'd like to generate a public/private keypair in node-js, and use the public key to encrypt message and the private key to decrypt the message. I need to encode user's secretKey because I use them for individually validation. And then I should decode it. I guess I can use public/private key encryption for this. Wallet software may use a BIP 32 seed to generate many private keys and corresponding public keys from a single secret value. This is called a hierarchical deterministic wallet, or HD wallet for short. The seed value, or master extended key, consists of a 256-bit private key and a. This website contains a sequential database of all Ethereum private keys, spread out on pages of 128 keys each. The key to every wallet, including Vitalik Buterin's wallet, are hidden in one of the pages. A private key is basically just a number between 1 and 2 256. This website generates keys for all of those numbers, spread out over pages of 128 keys each. This website doesn't actually have a database of all private keys, that would take an impossible amount of disk space. Instead, keys are procedurally generated on the fly when a page is opened. Pick a random list of ECDSA Ethereum Keys in decimal, hex or WIF format.

• coincurve: Cross-platform Python CFFI bindings for libsecp256k1
• pysha3: SHA-3 wrapper for Python (with support for keccak)

Generating Ethereum addresses is a 3-step process:

1. Generate a private key
2. Derive the public key from the private key
3. Derive the Ethereum address from the public key

Note that public keys and Ethereum addresses are not the same. Addresses are hashes of public keys. It's not possible to send funds to a public key.

Step 1: Generate a private key

Ethereum private keys are based on KECCAK-256 hashes. To generate such a hash we use the keccak_256 function from the pysha3 module on a random 32 byte seed:

Note that a KECCAK hash is not the same as a SHA-3 hash. KECCAK won a competition to become the SHA-3 standard but was slightly modified before it became standardized. Some SHA3 libraries such as pysha3 include the legacy KECCAK algorithm while others, such as the Python hashlib module, only implement the official SHA-3 standard.

Step 2: Derive the public key from the private key

To get our public key we need to sign our private key with an Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). Ethereum uses the secp256k1 curve ECDSA. Coincurve uses this as a default so we don't need to explicitly specify it when calling the function:

The Ethereum Yellow Paper states that the public key has to be a byte array of size 64.

By default coincurve uses the compressed format for public keys (libsecp256k1 was developed for Bitcoin where compressed keys are commonly used) which is 33 bytes in size. Uncompressed keys are 65 bytes in size. Additionally all public keys are prepended with a single byte to indicate if they are compressed or uncompressed. This means we first need to get the uncompressed 65 byte key (compressed=False) and then strip the first byte ([1:]) to get our 64 byte Ethereum public key.

Step 3: Derive the Ethereum address from the public key

We can now generate our Ethereum address:

As specified in the Yellow Paper we take the right most 20 bytes of the 32 byte KECCAK hash of the corresponding ECDSA public key.

Full Example

This is the full example code from the above steps. It generates a random private key, derives the address and prints them in hex format:

Conclusion

I used the Python timeit module to do a quick benchmark with the above code. The result is that my laptop can generate 18k addresses per second on a single cpu core. Using all 4 cpu cores that's 72k addresses per second, ~6.2 billion (6.220.800.000) addresses per day or around two trillion (2.270.592.000.000) addresses per year.

Ethereum's address space is 2^160. This means that by using this method it would take my laptop 643665439999999976814879449351716864 (six hundred and forty-three decillion ...) years to generate all Ethereum private keys with addresses.

∟Managing Ethereum Account

∟Ethereum Account Keystore File

This section describes the keystore file that contains the private key of an Ethereum account.

An Ethereum account keystore file is JSON file, that stores the private key of an Ethereum account.

We can use the importRawKey() function on the 'geth' JavaScript console to create keystore file from a private key:

Then view the keystore file content with the Windows 'type' command:

Note that the above keystore file has been reformatted.

As you can see, the private key has been encrypted by the password and stored to the 'ciphertext' property. The public key is stored as the 'addres' property.

Please do not send any Ether to this public key, since the private key is published, anyone can use it to spend the Ether fund associated to this public key.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction of Ethereum

Ethereum Blockchain

Ethereum Mist Wallet

geth - Go Ethereum

Testnet - Ropsten network

Private Ethereum Network

64-Bit 'geth' for Private Ethereum Network

Private Network with Custom Genesis Block

Transferring Funds between Ether Accounts

Generate Ethereum Private Key Javascript Free

MetaMask - Browser Based Ethereum Wallet

►Managing Ethereum Account

What Is Ethereum Account

Generate New Ethereum Accounts

Ethereum Public Key and Private Key Example

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►Ethereum Account Keystore File

'geth' Commands for Ethereum Accounts

ethereumfaucet.info - Mining Ether with Browser

Generate Ethereum Private Key Javascript Download

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