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June 01, 2011, 10:05:01 AM
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Is there any application that sign a human readable file by bitcion wallet private key?
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June 01, 2011, 10:15:27 AM
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openssl pkeyutl
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June 01, 2011, 10:17:54 AM
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Quote from: benjamindees on June 01, 2011, 10:15:27 AM
openssl pkeyutl

You mean that other application could read the wallet.dat without decrypt by bitcoin client?
really surprise me.
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No, that's assuming you have extracted the key first.  Search the forums, there are patches and (I think) utils that will do so.

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