how to genarate private key

[changjixiong]

hi everybody, I hava read the bitcoin protocol, and known how to calculate bitcoin address from private key, but the way how to genarate private key is not very clearly in the protocol, anybody knows? I want to write a program to genarate key pairs use python

[realdos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses

[changjixiong]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses

thank you very much

[polrpaul]

ask and you shall receive!

[threeip]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses

thank you very much

Also don't forget to browse over here -> https://github.com/search?q=python+bitcoin

[richardkiss]

I've recently released some Python code which makes it easy to generate private keys (among other things). It's pretty easy to follow. Take a look:

https://github.com/richardkiss/pycoin