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How to get the address from a public key in Python
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
""" | |
You will need to install the pycryptodome package. | |
You can do it with: | |
pip3 install pycryptodome | |
Note: To install pip3, run the following command | |
sudo apt install python3-pip | |
""" | |
import codecs | |
from Crypto.Hash import keccak | |
# An example of public key is: a33e56a80b9dc83a4456265d877c0765cea76146e625572fc679804f8867222ca3c816433a9b6e6690b0b8e919ffa874982706e812314aae09d85fc62fc4fa3c | |
public_key_bytes = codecs.decode("your public key here", "hex") | |
keccak_hash = keccak.new(digest_bits=256) | |
keccak_hash.update(public_key_bytes) | |
keccak_digest = keccak_hash.hexdigest() | |
wallet_len = 40 | |
wallet = "0x" + keccak_digest[-wallet_len:] | |
print("address", wallet) |
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