RE: Little lost bees - Reveal Public/Private keys from Password

[lightproject]

IIRC in sepk elliptic cryptographic protocol any signature can be reversed to obtain public key. Now, it'd be interesting to know what "PasswordKey()" method specifically does. Thanks in advance!

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[thecrazygm]

@lightproject, It's actually rather short and to the point:

        """ Derive private key from the brain key and the current sequence
            number
        """
        a = py23_bytes(self.account + self.role + self.password, 'utf8')
        s = hashlib.sha256(a).digest()
        return PrivateKey(hexlify(s).decode('ascii'), prefix=self.prefix)

specifically, that's get_private from the method other than that it just sets the public function

Unless you meant you wanted me to step through that too :)

[lightproject]

So If I understand correctly, password = brainkey? Thanks in advance!

[thecrazygm]

yes sir, you got it right :)

[thecrazygm]

I tried to clear that up, maybe i should have worded it better, steemit used to give passwords that started with "P" and were basically a key, but that is generated from suggest_brain_key i guess they didn't think people would understand an actual brain key, which most modern generators use now. (such as hiveinvite, which started this whole conversation)