DEPRECATED

I'm deprecating this library, since I know I'm not going to work on it, and if I do, it will be a complete rewrite. This is some of the first code I ever wrote, and it's gross and sloppy not a good representation of my current knowledge and ability. But pypi stats have told me that many people have downloaded it and continue to download and use it, so despite my reservations about leaving it up due to the code quality, I know for a fact that some people somewhere are depending on it (scary as that may be...), so I'm going to leave it here.

pybip38

My python implementation of the full BIP0038 spec

Requires: pycrypto, scrypt, simplebitcoinfuncs

BIP: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0038.mediawiki

When in doubt, use normalized unicode input for passwords with non-standard characters.

For example:

u'\u03D2\u0301\u0000\U00010400\U0001F4A9'

Functions

Encrypt/Decrypt via password:

bip38encrypt(password, priv, iscompressed=False)
    # Compression bool is ignored if private key input is WIF

bip38decrypt(password, encpriv, outputlotsequence=False)
    # Returns WIF key str if decrypted, else False
    # Returns tuple of (key, lot_int, sequence_int) if third input bool is True
    # Returns (key, False, False) if lot and sequence arne't used
    # and (False, False, False) if decryption fails.

EC Multiplied keys:

intermediate_code(password, useLotAndSequence=False, lot=100000, sequence=1, owner_salt=os.urandom(8))
    # returns 'passphrase' string intermediate code

passphrase_to_key(intermediatecode, iscompressed=False, seedb=os.urandom(24))
    # Takes 'passphrase' string as input
    # Returns tuple of:
    # (6P_encryptedkey_str, cfrm38_str, address_str)
    # seedb default is actually doublesha256(os.urandom(40))[:24]
    ########
    # It is recommended to leave iscompressed to False, since the
    # Bitcoin Address Utility reference implementation does NOT
    # confirm cfrm38 codes for compressed keys. It can still
    # decrypt the 6P key just fine, but the confirmation code
    # won't validate. My Python code here does validate them.

confirm38code(password, cfrm38code, outputlotsequence=False)
    # Returns Bitcoin address if confirmed, else False
    # Optionally returns lot and sequence also, following
    # same rules as outline in bip38decrypt() info above.

Version Bytes:

addversion(encpriv, version='80')
    # Takes 6P_key_str in and changes it to begin with 6V, and encodes a version byte.
    # This allows alt-coins to be differentiated.
    # This is a novelty function available ONLY HERE and is NOT part of the BIP0038 specification.
    # Nobody else uses this! You have been warned!!!

stripversion(6V_key_str, outputversion=False)
    # Returns 6P key str, or tuple of (6P-key, 2-char-hexstr-version-byte)

##Installation

Make sure you have the requirements satisfied, then

sudo pip install pybip38