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Simple script collection, currently in bash and python format, to generate a complete offline Ethereum wallet by creating an ECDSA keypair and derive its Ethereum address.

Generating the EC private key. First of all we use OpenSSL ecparam command to generate an elliptic curve private key. Ethereum standard is to use the secp256k1 curve. The same curve is used by Bitcoin. This command will print the private key in PEM format (using the wonderful ASN.1 key. Sap r3 license keys generator.

You can read my article about it here: https://kobl.one/blog/create-full-ethereum-keypair-and-address/

IMPORTANT The python version of this script has been updated to support mixed-case checksum address encoding through EIP55.

Python dependencies

  • ECDSA https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ecdsa
  • pysha3 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysha3

You can also use the included requirements.txt file to install them

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Bash dependencies

  • OpenSSL
  • SHA3sum (keccak-256sum) https://github.com/maandree/sha3sum

Compiled, statically linked versions of the keccak-256sum executable are available in the lib folder of this repo for i386 and x86_64.

Importing private key to geth

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You can use the generated private key to import in to geth (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum).

Note that geth will ask you immediately to choose a passphrase to protect the newly imported key.

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