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Topic: How to use BIP38 to encrypt a pre-determined private key? (Read 1255 times)

legendary
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The output is always the same if you supply a private key. I tested it.

Enter the same private key and passphrase into bitaddress and bit2factor. You will get a different result, but they both produce the same unencrypted result.



Ah, OK. I meant that I got the same result on bit2factor when I hit "generate" repeatedly with the same private key and passphrase. Thanks for clarifying, good to know.
newbie
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The output is always the same if you supply a private key. I tested it.

Enter the same private key and passphrase into bitaddress and bit2factor. You will get a different result, but they both produce the same unencrypted result.

legendary
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The output is always the same if you supply a private key. I tested it.
newbie
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bit2factor.org looks interesting for encrypting prior keys. Is it considered safe and who wrote it? There is a random element to the BIP38 process, so the output is always different.
legendary
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Aha! Perfectomungo!
legendary
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I downloaded Mike Caldwell's Bitcoin utility... but I can't figure out how to input a private key and then encrypt it according the BIP38 protocol. Does anyone here know how to do this?

You can use http://bit2factor.org or pybrainwallet.
legendary
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Sorry if this has been discussed previously, I couldn't find it.

I downloaded Mike Caldwell's Bitcoin utility... but I can't figure out how to input a private key and then encrypt it according the BIP38 protocol. Does anyone here know how to do this?

-Chris
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