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Title: blockchain.info can't import compressed private keys? Post by: randomproof on May 21, 2012, 03:03:08 AM Subject says it, but does anyone know of a way to uncompress a private key?
Title: Re: blockchain.info can't import compressed private keys? Post by: Stephen Gornick on May 21, 2012, 04:10:00 AM The last status on that was a little over a week ago:
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40264.msg894981#msg894981 Title: Re: blockchain.info can't import compressed private keys? Post by: randomproof on May 21, 2012, 04:56:13 PM Ok, I get that, but is there a way to convert a compessed private key to an uncompressed one?
Title: Re: blockchain.info can't import compressed private keys? Post by: casascius on May 21, 2012, 05:05:32 PM I am pretty sure there is not.
Or rather, you can, but it will result in a different bitcoin address, which makes it useless. Actually there is no such thing as a compressed private key. Only the public key is compressed. A "compressed private key" merely contains a flag that specifies that the conversion to public key should be done compressed. You can remove the flag... But will not get the same address in the end. Title: Re: blockchain.info can't import compressed private keys? Post by: randomproof on May 21, 2012, 06:01:56 PM Thanks. That is the problem I am getting. When I import the private key(from old version of pywallet) I get a different public key. Oh well.
Title: Re: blockchain.info can't import compressed private keys? Post by: piuk on May 21, 2012, 08:55:01 PM |
