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Title: WIF checksum Post by: evanuz on July 27, 2017, 06:55:02 PM Hey, i am trying to make a validation of WIF (Wallet Import Format).
Following the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet_import_format In step two, i have to Convert it to a byte string using Base58Check encoding I am using python , therefore: Code: import base58 If i print data it gives me this output [75, 120, 109, 118, 51, 117, 90, 90, 107, 69, 50, 100, 99, 89, 107, 65, 115, 113, 97, 99, 115, 90, 76, 70, 100, 82, 103, 52, 87, 102 , 97, 109, 66, 109, 115, 53, 84, 101, 120, 87, 111, 97, 68, 71, 114, 109, 102, 75, 105, 119, 82, 82, 98, 54, 87, 114, 89, 104, 69, 7 1, 117, 117, 90, 81, 53, 49, 103, 99, 80, 109, 101, 107, 104, 71, 107] Which is different from what i should obtain according to the wiki. Can somebody help me?? Thanks Title: Re: WIF checksum Post by: DannyHamilton on July 27, 2017, 07:36:07 PM Since the string you have is ALREADY base58check encoded, and you want to decode it back to its original bytes, try using:
enco=base58.b58decode_check(hexwif) instead of enco=base58.b58encode_check(hexwif) Title: Re: WIF checksum Post by: evanuz on July 27, 2017, 09:43:41 PM Since the string you have is ALREADY base58check encoded, and you want to decode it back to its original bytes, try using: enco=base58.b58decode_check(hexwif) instead of enco=base58.b58encode_check(hexwif) Thanks for the reply I have tried it like this: Code: import base58 And the output of enco is: Code: >>> enco Which looks more similar to what i should get but some parts are different is it because of some encoding i should convert it again? Title: Re: WIF checksum Post by: evanuz on July 27, 2017, 09:54:53 PM Oh i find out it has to be converted to hex :D Thx anyway
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