private-key-bip38

[hrobeers]

Hi,

I'm thinking about adding a private-key-bip38 option to your tool.
Are you open to such a contribution?

Kind regards,
hrobeers

[matja]

That would be a most welcome contribution! I was planning to work on it myself at some point.

Basically the goal I had in mind for this tool was to assist in any low-level transformation of keys to addresses and generation of addresses for testing, offline wallets, etc, so BIP 38 support would be ideal.

[hrobeers]

Exactly what I'm using it for ;)
Not started working on this yet.
I'll let you know when I do.

Thx

[hrobeers]

Unfortunately I can't find a C implementation apart from this one: https://github.com/notespace/bip38-cracker
However, this would require some extra study and re-implementation work.
I don't have the time to do this right now, but will let you know when I do.

[matja]

Thanks, that looks pretty good - the code is nicely commented and readable.

[hrobeers]

I started working on this issue based on bip38-cracker.
You can follow progress here if you like: https://github.com/hrobeers/bitcoin-tool/tree/bip38

It'll take a while as I don't have much time for this and that branch might be subject to rewrites of history.

So this is just a heads up.