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to get private key protected on tangible media off-line.

It's possible by using the importprivkey command.

Ok.
I have installed Bitcoin  application under Windows XP, run in GUI mode.
Should I run Bitcoin from  command line in off-line mode to get address generated, saved and
private, public keys saved ?

Bitcoin is not coming with any help file, on-line manual.

I am not interested to use Bitcoin for downloading blockchain.
Just testing security of Bitcoin application and the way
private and public keys, address are generated and handled and protected against
attacks by hackers (MS Windows XP).

I plan to use Bitcoin to generate private key in off-line mode
and have it saved to tangible off-line media like pendrive or CD-ROM
to not let windows applications coming with built-in keyboard logger functionality to steal
and export my private key to third parties.
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to get private key protected on tangible media off-line.

It's possible by using the importprivkey command.
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You can just save your encrypted wallet.dat file on a local drive. Especially when you don't intend to use a private key directly.
If you do want to use it directly: click here
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Activity: 72
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Hi,

could you tell me how to extract and save private and public keys from Bicoin application
to local file, to pendrive, to get private key protected on tangible media off-line.
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