Average search time?

[MrAureliusR]

Just wondering if I'm a) using the tool correctly and b) if the average keyspace needed to be searched for an n-length string is known.

I'm running the program like this:
./vanity-ssh-keygen_0.3.6_linux-amd64 --matcher="ignorecase-ed25519" --key-type="ed25519" --output-dir="./discovered-keys" string
At first I entered a string 9 characters long, but after searching over 72 billion keys I gave up. Shortened it to 6 characters and just updated from 0.3.5 (which did the 72 billion keys) to 0.3.6. The recent version is also giving occasional errors about not being able to connect to localhost:4318/v1/metrics.

Do I have the arguments correct? I essentially want to find an ed25519 key with the given string, no matter the case of each individual letter. I also have not been putting the string in quotes, not sure if that's necessary or not.

[Mattias-]

Hello there, You're using it correctly but I'm sorry to tell you that I found a bug in that matcher 😿.
Also make sure that the search string is in the base64 space.
Regarding time I recently found a 6 character string in about 20 million keys.
I will fix the bug and also invert the metric reporting so that it's turned off by default.

[MrAureliusR]

Aha, just tried again without that matcher and it found a match within a minute. I can't believe I left it running for like 4 days, heh. Oh well. Looking forward to the bug fixes!