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konradkonrad/pk_dump.py

Created February 22, 2017 15:04
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decode private key from Web3-Secret-Storage
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pk_dump.py
from ethereum.keys import decode_keystore_json
with open('/path/to/keystorefile.json') as f:
print decode_keystore_json(json.load(f), 'yoursecret').encode('hex')
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a note of advise: this is a terrible idea if your handling an account with real money, because your keyfile secret as well as your privatekey will end up in your terminal. if you don't see a problem with this, you should probably not do it :)

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