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Board Armory
Re: Failed import of private key
by
ben-abuya
on 13/04/2013, 17:33:50 UTC
It's because that's not a standard private key format.  In fact, I'm not sure what format it's in, because it's 36 bytes, and unless I did something wrong, it does not look like the last 4 bytes are a checksum.   Therefore, Armory interpretted it as a 36-byte integer, which is clearly larger than that 32-byte integer shown there.

I'm not sure what's going on with that key...

Oops, I screwed up with the copy/paste. The real private key is: Kz9Eyg1rL27RnkUmmkofeyxdbWSn7ARQTdCiVKHLKxdhrMGNjTAp
I did some more digging and this is a "private key associated with a compressed public key": "Private keys associated with compressed public keys are 52 characters and start with a capital L or K."

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key