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May 21, 2012, 03:03:08 AM
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Subject says it, but does anyone know of a way to uncompress a private key?

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May 21, 2012, 04:10:00 AM
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The last status on that was a little over a week ago:

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40264.msg894981#msg894981

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May 21, 2012, 04:56:13 PM
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Ok, I get that, but is there a way to convert a compessed private key to an uncompressed one?

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May 21, 2012, 05:05:32 PM
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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.

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May 21, 2012, 06:01:56 PM
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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.

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May 21, 2012, 08:55:01 PM
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You can now import compressed private keys (see warning)




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