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Calculate Bitcoin address corresponding to given ECDSA private key. Handy for verifying document timestamps provided by OriginStamp.org.
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
"""Calculate Bitcoin address corresponding to given ECDSA private key. | |
Handy for verifying document timestamps provided by OriginStamp.org. | |
Usage: ecdsa_to_bitocin_addy.py ecdsa_private_key # that's a 64-character hex string | |
Prerequisite: | |
pip install ecdsa | |
Core logic from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84238.0 | |
See also https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses#How_to_create_Bitcoin_Address | |
""" | |
import sys | |
import ecdsa | |
usage = "Usage: %s ecdsa_private_key (64-character hex)" % sys.argv[0] | |
secp256k1curve=ecdsa.ellipticcurve.CurveFp(115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007908834671663,0,7) | |
secp256k1point=ecdsa.ellipticcurve.Point(secp256k1curve,0x79BE667EF9DCBBAC55A06295CE870B07029BFCDB2DCE28D959F2815B16F81798,0x483ADA7726A3C4655DA4FBFC0E1108A8FD17B448A68554199C47D08FFB10D4B8,0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364141) | |
secp256k1=ecdsa.curves.Curve('secp256k1',secp256k1curve,secp256k1point,(1,3,132,0,10)) | |
#-------------------------------------- | |
import binascii, hashlib | |
def addy(pk): | |
""" | |
Return Bitcoin address corresponding to given ECDSA private key. | |
E.g. to verify https://app.originstamp.org/s/9f05ce06f0ca898f883cd32e54381448f440072a5545e9318c63d7ed425fcc84 | |
>>> addy(0x8f650ae299dbdf92558579fd4524e29df2424b0a3c5ce3c715fd2c6160681853) | |
'1NS3x99PykY5Aa9J8fSstu2NcAws5kBrVy' | |
""" | |
pko=ecdsa.SigningKey.from_secret_exponent(pk,secp256k1) | |
pubkey=binascii.hexlify(pko.get_verifying_key().to_string()) | |
pubkey2=hashlib.sha256(binascii.unhexlify('04'+pubkey)).hexdigest() | |
pubkey3=hashlib.new('ripemd160',binascii.unhexlify(pubkey2)).hexdigest() | |
pubkey4=hashlib.sha256(binascii.unhexlify('00'+pubkey3)).hexdigest() | |
pubkey5=hashlib.sha256(binascii.unhexlify(pubkey4)).hexdigest() | |
pubkey6=pubkey3+pubkey5[:8] | |
pubnum=int(pubkey6,16) | |
pubnumlist=[] | |
while pubnum!=0: pubnumlist.append(pubnum%58); pubnum/=58 | |
address='' | |
for l in ['123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'[x] for x in pubnumlist]: | |
address=l+address | |
return '1'+address | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
# print addy(0x18E14A7B6A307F426A94F8114701E7C8E774E7F9A47E2C2035DB29A206321725) | |
# print addy(int(hashlib.sha256('something small and easy to remember but not easy to guess').hexdigest(),16)) | |
# print addy(int(hashlib.sha256(file('hiddeninplainsight.jpg','rb+').read()).hexdigest(),16)) | |
if len(sys.argv) < 2: | |
print(usage) | |
sys.exit(1) | |
ecdsa_private = sys.argv[1] | |
print("Bitcoin address is %s for ECDSA private key\n %s" % (addy(int(ecdsa_private, 16)), ecdsa_private)) |
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