Quote from: NotATether on January 17, 2021, 11:31:03 PM

Quote from: Gantz87 on January 17, 2021, 07:23:15 PM

Quote from: Sanglotslongs2 on January 15, 2021, 10:32:20 PM

From the old topic it's a PUBLIC key not a PRIVATE key. Why did you change it?

I don't want to post my private Key online so anyone can take my BTC. Roll Eyes

You are able to use a sample private key created from bitaddress.org if all you want to do is convert it from PEM and back again. https://www.bitaddress.org/bitaddress.org-v3.3.0-SHA256-dec17c07685e1870960903d8f58090475b25af946fe95a734f88408cef4aa194.html

PEM is an RSA private key file format. So you are trying to convert an RSA private key bytes to bitcoin private key bytes but this doesn't make sense at first because bitcoin private keys use elliptic curve cryptography, not RSA.

But when I ran bc_key with an address in some wallet file, I got this output:

-----BEGIN EC PARAMETERS-----
short ASCII string
-----END EC PARAMETERS-----
-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
really long string of ASCII text that looks like one in OP
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----

So what you did is convert the output of bc_key, an ECC private key, into an RSA public key. We should probably figure out how to get the private key bytes out of this ECC key first as it's most likely a valid bitcoin private key.

hi there arkadas,
do you know if you can get to enter the password with bc_key for the wallet.dat file.
thanks