OpenSSL is a general-purpose cryptography library. Originally used by Bitcoin Core before it was replaced with libsecp256k1.
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How do these OpenSSL commands create a Bitcoin private/key from a ECDSA keypair
I found the following code online and apparently it works. But I don't understand the lines which extract the Bitcoin compatible private/public key from the created ECDSA…
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OpenSSL generate Bitcoin address
I am building a script to generate secp256k1 using OpenSSL in MacOS.
Seems to work fine.
My question: is this SECURE enough?
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Missing name, for example generate_key.sh bob"
exit…
Mircea Stanciu
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