Address Generation Procedure

[guitarplinker]

I'm trying to understand the steps for generating a bitcoin address on this wiki page, but the step 2 (SHA256 hash of ECDSA pub key) value isn't lining up:

Code:

user@computer:~$ echo -n "0250863ad64a87ae8a2fe83c1af1a8403cb53f53e486d8511dad8a04887e5b2352" | sha256sum
a9ce83de3a0ff3516b7c50cdd787e9f69f152f227d93c9512774231e7132e925  -

The expected value is 0b7c28c9b7290c98d7438e70b3d3f7c848fbd7d1dc194ff83f4f7cc9b1378e98. I tried following the steps on this page but encountered the same behavior. Does anyone see where I'm going wrong in following these guides?

[Entontothekeseczi]

Code:

 echo -n "0250863ad64a87ae8a2fe83c1af1a8403cb53f53e486d8511dad8a04887e5b2352" | xxd -r -p | sha256sum

sha256sum needs the bytes not the ascii representation of the hex-encoded, compressed public key.
xxd takes care of the conversion and should come with vim package in case you don't have it yet.

[ranochigo]

Your SHA256 value, are you calculating it using ASCII or hex? Most online converters tend to treat the value that you've entered as ASCII while Bitcoin treats it as hex.

[guitarplinker]

Thank you both for clarifying, converting the hex values to their corresponding character values before hashing did the trick!