\[BOUNTY CLAIMED\] Python conversion code for broken private keys

Kevlar

I’m trying to get this to work, hank, but I seem to be missing a variable declaration in the code.

[code]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\savotr\Downloads\convert.py”, line 76, in
print(“Known input:”, known_input)
NameError: name ‘known_input’ is not defined
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As you can see, known_input isn’t defined or initialized. Did you take something out and forget to fix this?

hank

known_input is just a private key string. I removed the test private keys from the code there haphazardly so I could post it. You can probably remove anything that isn’t dealing with the arguments parsed with argparse - it was just test code.

Kevlar

If I remove the offending piece of code, I get this:

[code]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\savotr\Downloads\convert.py”, line 80, in
print("Input: ", hex(decoded))
TypeError: ‘float’ object cannot be interpreted as an integer
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Edit: looks like math changed in Python 2-3. So I’m downgrading to 2, will let you know what I find.

Kevlar

Your example was a little too complex for me to completely understand so I implemented my own version using the wiki page you linked to.

[code]
import hashlib
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(‘key’)
parser.add_argument(‘–tocustom’, nargs=1, help=“Custom version. Use 2 hex chars. Not compatible with other options”)
parser.add_argument(‘–toltc’, action=“store_true”, help=“Convert input to LTC private key”)
parser.add_argument(‘–toftc’, action=“store_true”, help=“Convert input to FTC private key”)
parser.add_argument(‘–tobtc’, action=“store_true”, help=“Convert input to BTC private key”)
args = parser.parse_args()

if args.toltc:
args.version = “B0”
elif args.toftc:
args.version = “8E”
elif args.tobtc:
args.version = “80”
elif args.tocustom:
args.version = args.tocustom[0]

__b58chars = ‘123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz’
__b58base = len(__b58chars)

def b58encode(v):
long_value = int(v.encode(“hex_codec”), 16)
result = ‘’
while long_value >= __b58base:
div, mod = divmod(long_value, __b58base)
result = __b58chars[mod] + result
long_value = div
result = __b58chars[long_value] + result
# Bitcoin does a little leading-zero-compression:
# leading 0-bytes in the input become leading-1s
nPad = 0
for c in v:
if c == ‘\0’: nPad += 1
else: break
return (__b58chars[0]*nPad) + result

def b58decode(v):
long_value = 0L
for (i, c) in enumerate(v[::-1]):
long_value += __b58chars.find© * (__b58base**i)
result = ‘’
while long_value >= 256:
div, mod = divmod(long_value, 256)
result = chr(mod) + result
long_value = div
result = chr(long_value) + result
nPad = 0
for c in v:
if c == __b58chars[0]: nPad += 1
else: break
result = chr(0)*nPad + result
return result

def numtowif(numpriv):
step1 = args.version+numpriv
step2 = hashlib.sha256(step1).hexdigest()
step3 = hashlib.sha256(step2).hexdigest()
step4 = step1 + step3[:8]
step5 = b58encode(step4)
return step5

def wiftonum(wifpriv):
step1 = b58decode(wifpriv)
step2 = step1[:-8]
step3 = step2[2:]
return step3

print(numtowif(wiftonum(args.key)))
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And that should do the trick.

I’ve got some example outputs:
[code]
----> FTC to FTC (input and output should match)
>convert.py --toftc 4MGS1y8YUYERWHgVDKfqv3NsvaBGVqGYEUiBAUmz9WA7hLJghzy9rB8FpQiF7XqEc3tLe6ZPyP4r14AYpVFqV
4MGS1y8YUYERWHgVDKfqv3NsvaBGVqGYEUiBAUmz9WA7hLJghzy9rB8FpQiF7XqEc3tLe6ZPyP4r14AYpVFqV

----> FTC TO LTC (convert FTC WIF to LTC WIF)
>convert.py --toltc 4MGS1y8YUYERWHgVDKfqv3NsvaBGVqGYEUiBAUmz9WA7hLJghzy9rB8FpQiF7XqEc3tLe6ZPyP4r14AYpVFqV
4wWNH7k7JfcWwZRPKgo5n9LeHm32tHuhiMgDEHTxMrXQn3fWoirhyoaRYrYmsEt5AJYNj4rnVcVcyih3WwjnP

----> LTC TO FTC (using the prior output from LTC, convert back to FTC, output should match first example)
>convert.py --toftc 4wWNH7k7JfcWwZRPKgo5n9LeHm32tHuhiMgDEHTxMrXQn3fWoirhyoaRYrYmsEt5AJYNj4rnVcVcyih3WwjnP
4MGS1y8YUYERWHgVDKfqv3NsvaBGVqGYEUiBAUmz9WA7hLJghzy9rB8FpQiF7XqEc3tLe6ZPyP4r14AYpVFqV
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And here’s a github pull request with the diff for you, so you can just merge it in yourself without having to copy-pasta the code from here: https://github.com/hank/life/pull/1

My FTC address is: 6eXWJdPKMRpMG2b8Hv6bvEpXp5taThXBsS

hank

I’ll check this out when I get home - thanks!

hank

So, here I created a test address with no coins on it with the official client:
[code]
dumpprivkey 6rnc5LW1zi1QDH2fRzZLCXPu2wEDX6mGkp
N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
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Here’s the result:

[code]hank$ python convert.py --tobtc N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
9K5tGttcjM981HU9fdASvek4Wce6234LhUDcmirK6c7t44CWJhcL
hank$ python convert.py --toftc 9K5tGttcjM981HU9fdASvek4Wce6234LhUDcmirK6c7t44CWJhcL
9Knhubm3QF5Km7hMUfLUugUemr326gr35ze72qzkvW3vsvjhLDVt[/code]

[code]
importprivkey 9KnbfzhQxPz1CnDhRDPYqGsMto8YD9sJzeypfdnC6WWjR5iMdNc2
{“code”:-5,“message”:“Invalid private key”}
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I also tried one of your FTC address outputs:

[code]
importprivkey 4MGS1y8YUYERWHgVDKfqv3NsvaBGVqGYEUiBAUmz9WA7hLJghzy9rB8FpQiF7XqEc3tLe6ZPyP4r14AYpVFqV
{“code”:-5,“message”:“Invalid private key”}
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Kevlar

[quote name=“hank” post=“31001” timestamp=“1381556248”]
So, here I created a test address with no coins on it with the official client:
[code]
dumpprivkey 6rnc5LW1zi1QDH2fRzZLCXPu2wEDX6mGkp
N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
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Here’s the result:

[code]hank$ python convert.py --tobtc N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
9K5tGttcjM981HU9fdASvek4Wce6234LhUDcmirK6c7t44CWJhcL
hank$ python convert.py --toftc 9K5tGttcjM981HU9fdASvek4Wce6234LhUDcmirK6c7t44CWJhcL
9Knhubm3QF5Km7hMUfLUugUemr326gr35ze72qzkvW3vsvjhLDVt[/code]

[code]
importprivkey 9KnbfzhQxPz1CnDhRDPYqGsMto8YD9sJzeypfdnC6WWjR5iMdNc2
{“code”:-5,“message”:“Invalid private key”}
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I also tried one of your FTC address outputs:

[code]
importprivkey 4MGS1y8YUYERWHgVDKfqv3NsvaBGVqGYEUiBAUmz9WA7hLJghzy9rB8FpQiF7XqEc3tLe6ZPyP4r14AYpVFqV
{“code”:-5,“message”:“Invalid private key”}
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Hmm… that’s strange. Let me look into that.

hank

Fixed.

https://github.com/hank/life/blob/master/code/python/cryptcoin_addr_convert/convert.py

[code]hank$ python convert.py --tobtc N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
Converting N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
L48R4PUJP4Kswr3GvKAp7tDrnb8Masqpmc4C4yTp6Cf7vJ36t2t9
hank$ python convert.py --toftc N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
Converting N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1
N8FF4eWtqD9ob6E2fNhKGKYgGfwVGje13nn1uLK8xuD5rvv2kZY1[/code]

There were a couple things wrong. One was you had to encode the versions as ints and prepend them in binary instead of ascii. You were cutting too much off the end and the front (probably due to powershell insanity), which was a pretty easy fix. Try out verbose mode to see the full details.

As far as I can tell, this code works, so I think you’re still entitled to a bounty. I did have to fix it, so I don’t think the full 250 is fair - how does 150FTC sound?

Kevlar

Heh, I found the problem just now and was coming here to post the fix, but you had already found it.

I’ll take what I can get. Hope I helped ya… :)

hank

You did help a lot - I’ll send the funds shortly.

chrisj

[quote name=“hank” post=“31051” timestamp=“1381605534”]
You did help a lot - I’ll send the funds shortly.
[/quote]

Sweet!

hank

I’m trying to sync my wallet right now and I’m having some problems. Shouldn’t be too much longer though…

hank

[b]Sent[/b]

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Bushstar

Great works guys :)