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Understanding the concept of Private Key, Public Key and Address in Ethereum Blockchain
Before we get deeper into the concept of Ethereum Blockchain, it is important to understand how Public Key, Private Key and Address are generated. To make this easier for beginners, I am trying to explain the technical concept with an example.
Dec 09, 2010 Converting a PFX file to PEM and Key via openssl December 9, 2010 kwanann Leave a comment Go to comments For some wierd reason, although the steps are simple, i cannot easily find a single page which gives you the exact steps (only 4) to convert a pfx file to a PEM and a KEY file. I have used openssl to create a.key and.cer file in pem format (you can read them). Now I want to create.pfx file from them. I have read openssl doumentation it says something like following command I can use. Openssl pkcs12 -export -in certificate.cer -inkey privateKey.key -out certificate.pfx -certfile CACert.cer. Jul 23, 2015 1. I have generated a private key: openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey.pem 2048 2. I already have the SSL certificate saved as newcert2015.crt (my understanding is that it is in PEM format). I then try to generate a PFX file from both the crt file and the key: openssl pkcs12 -export -in newcert2015.crt -inkey privkey.pem -out newpfx2015.pfx. Jun 19, 2015 pkcs12 – the file utility for PKCS#12 files in OpenSSL-export -out certificate.pfx – export and save the PFX file as certificate.pfx-inkey privateKey.key – use the private key file privateKey.key as the private key to combine with the certificate. Create a pkcs12 (.pfx or.p12) from OpenSSL files (.pem,.cer,.crt.) Find the private key file (xxx.key) (previously generated along with the CSR). Download the.p7b file on your certificate status page. A) Convert this file into a text one (PEM): On Windows, the OpenSSL command must. Openssl generate pfx from pem and key download.
Ethereum key generation is based on elliptical curve ecp256k1. Eliptical curve (EC) is intense mathematics, and there are a lot of great articles on internet covering deep details of elliptical curve. There are standard libraries to generate Ethereum key pair in much safer way. In this article, just for demonstration, I will use elliptical curve Javascript libaray to perform elliptical curve operations.
On EC ecp256k1 , any number between 1 to 2^256-1 is a valid private key. A good library generate a private key with taking sufficient randomness into account. For this exercise we will take '1' as private key which is an acceptable private key because it lies in specified range mentioned above. Ethereum requires private key to be 256 bit long. Here is the sample code for nodejs.
This will print private key in hex which is
PK::0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Public key is described as follows in yellow paper.
Where pu is the public key, assumed to be a byte array of size 64 (formed from the concatenation of two positive integers each < 2256) and pr is the private key, a byte array of size 32 (or a single positive integer in the aforementioned range).
This is done using group operation of EC cryptography. To derive public key, private key is multiplied by G.Multiplication used to derive public is EC multiplication which is entirely different from normal multiplication for which I am going to use JS library . G is called generator point which is one of the domain parameters of EC cryptography. G has fixed value for ecp256k1, which is recommended by experts. you can read more here.
Ethereum address is described as follows in yellow paper Microsoft word 2017 download for windows 10.
For a given private key, pr, the Ethereum address A(pr) (a 160-bit value) to which it corresponds is defined as the right most 160-bits of the Keccak hash of the corresponding ECDSA public key.
To generate Ethereum address, take Keccak-256 hash of public key. Right most 20 bytes is your Ethereum address.
PK::0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Ethereum Address:::0x7e5f4552091a69125d5dfcb7b8c2659029395bdf
This is just an example to understand the concept. Please do not use it to generate real wallet to hold ETH.
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