I am trying to sign a bitcoin transaction in c#. I have 2 bits of code I am trying to complete. I can create a set of private and public keys using Bouncy castle. I can convert this to wallet import format ok.
I can also generate a bitcoin address from the ECDSA public key.
However, I want to sign a transaction and all I have is my private key. I don't want to have to import into a wallet and sign. So how can I generate the public key, given only the private key?
I have found a javascript method that does this:
ecparams.getG().multiply(this.priv).getEncoded();
The only way I've seen in Bouncy Castle is to generate a random pair.
private static AsymmetricCipherKeyPair GenerateKeys(int keySize)
{
ECKeyPairGenerator gen = new ECKeyPairGenerator();
SecureRandom secureRandom = new SecureRandom();
KeyGenerationParameters keyGenParam = new KeyGenerationParameters(secureRandom, keySize);
gen.Init(keyGenParam);
return gen.GenerateKeyPair();
}
From steininger's answer, I got the following to work with the sample keys I had.
using Org.BouncyCastle.Asn1.Sec;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Asn1.X9;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Math;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Math.EC;
public static class Example
{
private static X9ECParameters curve = SecNamedCurves.GetByName("secp256k1");
private static ECDomainParameters domain = new ECDomainParameters(curve.Curve, curve.G, curve.N, curve.H);
public static byte[] ToPublicKey(byte[] privateKey)
{
BigInteger d = new BigInteger(privateKey);
ECPoint q = domain.G.Multiply(d);
var publicParams = new ECPublicKeyParameters(q, domain);
return publicParams.Q.GetEncoded();
}
}
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