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Generate Ethereum Private key, Public key, and Address using Bash and OpenSSL
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# Generate the private and public keys | |
openssl ecparam -name secp256k1 -genkey -noout | openssl ec -text -noout > key | |
# Extract the public key and remove the EC prefix 0x04 | |
cat key | grep pub -A 5 | tail -n +2 | tr -d '\n[:space:]:' | sed 's/^04//' > pub | |
# Extract the private key and remove the leading zero byte | |
cat key | grep priv -A 3 | tail -n +2 | tr -d '\n[:space:]:' | sed 's/^00//' > priv | |
# Generate the hash and take the address part | |
cat pub | keccak-256sum -x -l | tr -d ' -' | tail -c 41 > address | |
# (Optional) import the private key to geth | |
geth account import priv |
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