Hi All
in the following script where do input the private key with the missing characters? is it <param name="pubKey">Bitcoin Public Key</param>?
Using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Numerics;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
namespace CommonLibrary
{
// <summary>
//
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses // </summary>
public class BitcoinConversions
{
// <summary>
// Satohi is the smallest amount of bitcoin, 10^-8
// </summary>
public const decimal Satoshi = 0.00000001m;
// <summary>
// Characters used in Base58Encoding which is all chars excluding "0OIl"
// </summary>
private const string Base58Chars = "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz";
// <summary>
// Converts a hex string to intiger.
// </summary>
// <param name="hex">hex value to convert.</param>
// <returns></returns>
/public static UInt32 HexToInt(string hex)
/{
/ byte[] ba = HexToByteArray(hex);
/ if (!BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
/ {
/ ba = ba.Reverse().ToArray();
/ }
/ / Prevent out of range exception by adding zeros.
/ if (ba.Length < 4)
/ {
/ ba = ba.Concat(new byte[4 - ba.Length]).ToArray();
/ }
/ return BitConverter.ToUInt32(ba, 0);
/}
// <summary>
// Converts a hex string to bye array.
// </summary>
// <param name="hex">hex to convert.</param>
// <returns>byte array of hex</returns>
public static byte[] HexToByteArray(string hex)
{
int NumberChars = hex.Length;
byte[] bytes = new byte[NumberChars 2];
for (int i = 0; i < NumberChars; i += 2)
bytes[i 2] = Convert.ToByte(hex.Substring(i, 2), 16);
return bytes;
}
// <summary>
// Converts a byte array to hex string.
// </summary>
// <param name="b">byte array to convert.</param>
// <returns></returns>
public static string ByteArrayToHex(byte[] b)
{
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < b.Length; i++)
{
result.Append(b
.ToString("x2"));
}
return result.ToString();
}
// <summary>
// Converts the Hash160 (RIPEMD-160) to Base58 encoded string.
// </summary>
// <param name="data">Hash160 string value.</param>
// <returns>Base58 Encoded result.</returns>
public static string Base58ToHash160(string data)
{
/ Decode Base58 string to BigInteger
BigInteger intData = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
{
intData = intData * 58 + Base58Chars.IndexOf(data);
}
/ Encode BigInteger to byte[]
/ Leading zero bytes get encoded as leading `1` characters
var bData = intData.ToByteArray();
if (BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
{
bData = bData.Reverse().ToArray();
}
bData = bData.SkipWhile(b => b == 0).ToArray();
var hash160 = BitConverter.ToString(bData).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
/ Remove checksum (4 bytes = 8 last chars)
return hash160.Remove(hash160.Length - 
;
}
// <summary>
// Computes the hash value of the specified byte array.
// </summary>
// <param name="b">byte array to compute hash of.</param>
// <returns></returns>
private static byte[] DoubleShaByte(byte[] b)
{
using (SHA256 sha = new SHA256Managed())
{
byte[] hash1 = sha.ComputeHash(b);
byte[] hash2 = sha.ComputeHash(hash1);
return hash2;
}
}
// <summary>
// Returns Transaction Id for the given Raw Transaction hex.
// </summary>
// <param name="txHex">Raw Transaction hex.</param>
// <returns>Transaction Id</returns>
public static string GetTxId(string txHex)
{
byte[] ba = HexToByteArray(txHex);
byte[] sha2x = DoubleShaByte(ba);
return ByteArrayToHex(sha2x.Reverse().ToArray());
}
// <summary>
// Converts Public Key to Hash160 (RIPEMD-160)
// <para/>A.K.A. payload
// </summary>
// <param name="pubKey">Bitcoin Public Key</param>
// <returns>hash160 (RIPEMD-160)</returns>
public static byte[] PubKeyToHash160(string pubKey)
{
using (SHA256 sha = new SHA256Managed())
{
byte[] pubKeyBytes = HexToByteArray(pubKey);
/ 2. Perform Sha256 hashing on public key
byte[] hash1 = sha.ComputeHash(pubKeyBytes);
/ 3. Perform RIPEMD-160 hashing on step 2
using (RIPEMD160 r160 = new RIPEMD160Managed())
{
byte[] hash2 = r160.ComputeHash(hash1);
return hash2;
}
}
}
// <summary>
// Converts Hash160 (RIPEMD-160) to Base58 bitcoin Address.
// </summary>
// <param name="hash160">Hash160 (RIPEMD-160) bytes</param>
// <returns>Base58 encoded bytes</returns>
public static string Hash160ToBase58(byte[] hash160)
{
/ 4. Add version byte in front of RIPEMD-160 hash (0x00 for Main Network)
byte[] ver = { 0x00 };
byte[] hash160Extended = ver.Concat(hash160).ToArray();
/ 5&6. Perform SHA-256 hash on the extended RIPEMD-160 result x2
byte[] sha2x = DoubleShaByte(hash160Extended);
/ 7. The first 4 bytes are address checksum
byte[] checkSumByte = new byte[4];
checkSumByte[0] = sha2x[0];
checkSumByte[1] = sha2x[1];
checkSumByte[2] = sha2x[2];
checkSumByte[3] = sha2x[3];
/ 8. 25-byte binary Bitcoin Address = RIPEMD-160 extended + Checksum
byte[] hash160WithCheckSum = hash160Extended.Concat(checkSumByte).ToArray();
return Hash160WithCheckSumToBase58(hash160WithCheckSum);
}
public static string Hash160ToBase58(string hash160)
{
byte[] hash160Bytes = HexToByteArray(hash160);
return Hash160ToBase58(hash160Bytes);
}
// <summary>
// Converts hash to Base58 Encoded string.
// </summary>
// <param name="hash">1-byte_version + hash_or_other_data + 4-byte_check_code</param>
// <returns>Base58 encoded result</returns>
public static string Hash160WithCheckSumToBase58(byte[] hash)
{
/ Decode byte[] to BigInteger
BigInteger intData = hash.Aggregate<byte, BigInteger>(0, (current, t) => current * 256 + t);
/ Encode BigInteger to Base58 string
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
while (intData > 0)
{
var remainder = (int)(intData % 58);
intData= 58;
result.Insert(0, Base58Chars[remainder]);
}
/ Append '1' for each leading 0 byte
for (var i = 0; i < hash.Length && hash == 0; i++)
{
result.Insert(0, '1');
}
return result.ToString();
}
public static string Hash160WithCheckSumToBase58(string hash)
{
byte[] hashByte = HexToByteArray(hash);
return Hash160WithCheckSumToBase58(hashByte);
}
// <summary>
// Converts Public Key to Base58 encoded Bitcoin Address.
// </summary>
// <param name="pubKey">Bitcoin Public Key.</param>
// <returns>Base58 encoded Bitcoin Address.</returns>
public static string PubKeyToBase58(string pubKey)
{
byte[] hash160 = PubKeyToHash160(pubKey);
string base58 = Hash160ToBase58(hash160);
return base58;
}
}
}
