uplinks:: Probability Public-key Cryptography
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Probability of someone generating the same private key
Assuming that the private Key Space is bits long, a total of private keys can be generated. Therefore, the probabiity of someone generating the exact private key equals to
Did You Know
The size of bitcoin’s private key space, () is an unfathomably large number. It is approximately in decimal. For comparison, the visible universe is estimated to contain atoms.
— Mastering Bitcoin