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Title: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: chriswilmer on November 26, 2013, 01:37:53 AM Sorry if this has been discussed previously, I couldn't find it.
I downloaded Mike Caldwell's Bitcoin utility... but I can't figure out how to input a private key and then encrypt it according the BIP38 protocol. Does anyone here know how to do this? -Chris Title: Re: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: dserrano5 on November 26, 2013, 08:13:56 AM I downloaded Mike Caldwell's Bitcoin utility... but I can't figure out how to input a private key and then encrypt it according the BIP38 protocol. Does anyone here know how to do this? You can use http://bit2factor.org or pybrainwallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=311257.0). Title: Re: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: chriswilmer on November 26, 2013, 04:38:22 PM Aha! Perfectomungo!
Title: Re: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: agent13 on November 27, 2013, 02:28:38 AM bit2factor.org looks interesting for encrypting prior keys. Is it considered safe and who wrote it? There is a random element to the BIP38 process, so the output is always different. Title: Re: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: chriswilmer on November 27, 2013, 04:11:25 AM The output is always the same if you supply a private key. I tested it.
Title: Re: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: agent13 on November 27, 2013, 06:26:29 AM The output is always the same if you supply a private key. I tested it. Enter the same private key and passphrase into bitaddress and bit2factor. You will get a different result, but they both produce the same unencrypted result. Title: Re: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? Post by: chriswilmer on November 27, 2013, 10:42:12 AM The output is always the same if you supply a private key. I tested it. Enter the same private key and passphrase into bitaddress and bit2factor. You will get a different result, but they both produce the same unencrypted result. Ah, OK. I meant that I got the same result on bit2factor when I hit "generate" repeatedly with the same private key and passphrase. Thanks for clarifying, good to know. |