How to generate a Litecoin Private key and correspondent Public Address in C#

[Gustiras]

Hello,

I found this C# tool to generate addresses for Bitcoin (compressed and uncompressed):

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Address_Utility
https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility

It works perfectly for Bitcoin, but for Litecoin it seems not to work.

Any ideas how to use similar code to generate Litecoin Addresses?

Thanks

[jasemoney]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0

https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=202146.0



https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master-0.8/src/base58.h#L275

"        PUBKEY_ADDRESS = 48, // Litecoin addresses start with L"

you can write a quick file to start the vanitygen in windows..
create a notepad text file call it

runvanitygen.bat

put this in it

vanitygen -i -k -o complete.txt -X 48 Litecoin

will search for a pattern Litecoin
-i means case insensitive
-k means it will keep finding more after it finds one match
-X 48 is the pubkey address number found in the base58 file from litecoin code, since litecoin is widely spread you can use just -L instead
-o creates and outputs the result(s) to a txt file

this will get you a matched private key and an address. it will not show the other various key datas.
\you can change Litecoin to whatever it just needs to start with a capital L and cant contain uppercase i, lowercase L uppercase o, nor number zero.

*apologies im sure this isnt exactly what your looking for, but if you want to create addresses and hold the keys this is how. if you want to know the WIF compressed uncompressed etc from a private key then this isnt helpful

[monsterer]

Hello,

I found this C# tool to generate addresses for Bitcoin (compressed and uncompressed):

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Address_Utility
https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility

It works perfectly for Bitcoin, but for Litecoin it seems not to work.

Any ideas how to use similar code to generate Litecoin Addresses?

Thanks

Look for the address type byte - it needs changing

[mcaizgk2]

Hello,

I found this C# tool to generate addresses for Bitcoin (compressed and uncompressed):

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Address_Utility
https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility

It works perfectly for Bitcoin, but for Litecoin it seems not to work.

Any ideas how to use similar code to generate Litecoin Addresses?

Thanks

You can use BitcoinLib for this purpose which comes with an out of the box Litecoin integration:

ILitecoinService CoinService = new LitecoinService();
string newAddress = CoinService.GetNewAddress();
string privateKeyForNewAddress = CoinService.DumpPrivKey(newAddress);

[bloodDiamond]

Hello,

I found this C# tool to generate addresses for Bitcoin (compressed and uncompressed):

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Address_Utility
https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility

It works perfectly for Bitcoin, but for Litecoin it seems not to work.

Any ideas how to use similar code to generate Litecoin Addresses?

Thanks

You can use BitcoinLib for this purpose which comes with an out of the box Litecoin integration:

ILitecoinService CoinService = new LitecoinService();
string newAddress = CoinService.GetNewAddress();
string privateKeyForNewAddress = CoinService.DumpPrivKey(newAddress);

maybe do you know if there are some bitcoin libraries written in VB.NET???

thanks

[nagatlakshmi]

Very interesting and informative thread.  I learn lot of things here.