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Answer by Vojtěch Strnad for How can a collision attack reveal the private key?

If the attacker just tries random public keys and guesses the correct one, they obviously won't be able to spend the funds. What they can do is try random private keys and derive the public keys from...

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How can a collision attack reveal the private key?

From "Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain 3d edition, Ch4" :All addresses based on hash functions are theoretically vulnerable to an attacker independently finding the same input that...

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