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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:36:07 +0000
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To: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Number Request: Addresses over Audio
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Still not sure how you can take a BIP32 public seed and figure out if an
> address was derived from it though.   I mean, wouldn't I have to compute all
> 2^31 possible public child addresses?

Which would take a quad core laptop about 8 hours with competent software

And presumably you're not using the whole 2^31 space else the receiver
also has to do that computation...