Topic: Litecoin port of Bitaddress.org? - page 2. (Read 3155 times)

http://forum.litecoin.net//index.php/topic,1170.0.html

casascius, I want some silver litecoins please  

And a Litecoin banknote image!

Thanks! Now all I need is a way to push signed transactions from some online server!

I just cloned the latest from github and put this together: http://liteaddress.org/

And 6w, I presume, since a very tiny part of the key space falls there.

I was thinking of using 6 as a prefix to denote "key that needs something else", such as a password or another key.

Have a peek at this.  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Casascius/Base58Check-encoded_objects_proposal

None of my proposed key types conflict with the 6u-6w range used by Litecoin, but I have indeed proposed a conflict with respect to what I have proposed as a potential meaning of the number "6" as a prefix.  Now that I am aware of this, I wanted to take a temperature.

If these features got accepted (assume I "moved" my idea to 7, for example), Litecoin would need to define yet another prefix that means "key that needs something else", as well as "Litecoin", all at the same time.  That might be potentially more confusing than just saying that "private keys look like this, private keys with requirements look like that, and Litecoin ones all start with L".

For example, what if Litecoin private keys started with L5 and Litecoin private keys "that need something else" start with L6?  These are not valid prefixes for Litecoin payment addresses (which I understand can only start with L + [KLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghi]).  But if implemented this way, all of the different kinds of secure private keys invented for Bitcoin could easily be understood in the context of Litecoin.

Clients wouldn't have to stop accepting 6u-6w, they'd remain fully compatible.  They would just display and export L5 for future keys.

The prefix L5 could be reliably achieved by using two version bytes before the 32-byte key payload: 0x8100, and L6 with 0x8120.  Each key would be 52 characters.

Pretty well established. Pywallet (jackjack's fork, which also works with Litecoin) and Vanitygen both conform to this.
The latest version of Litecoin does not accept Bitcoin private keys; it only accepts keys starting with "6u" or "6v".

How established is the idea that Litecoin private keys start with "6"?  Does Litecoin accept Bitcoin private keys?

SWEET! Just what I was looking for! 

Sure thing: http://address.litecoin.net/
Thanks goes to Greedi for putting it together.

I imagine so...

I would guess just changing one number would be enough to do it - the prefix that is different for litecoin.

(besides the obvious changes to artwork/text)

Would this be easy for someone to do? I really want it!