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Re: Bittaddress.org brainwallet passphrase is NOT sha256
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ETFbitcoin
on 18/07/2019, 19:02:57 UTC
Because a Bitcoin private key is not only a sha256 hash:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key

Besides private Key provided by bitaddress.org uses Base58 format, not Hexadecimal which used by SHA-256 output.

While there's a convention to convert private key with HEX format to Base58 format (see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/8249), i'm not sure if bitaddress.org use exactly same method.