[Cryptography-dev] Raw ECDSA keypairs?

[Alex Gaynor]

private_key.private_numbers() gives you an object with a `private_value`
attribute which is an integer.

Alex

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 6:09 PM, John Pacific <me at johnpacific.com> wrote:

> Sorry, asking questions for remote people.
> I think he meant the actual numbers of the key pair.
>
> I found a class that does it in the API. I'm assuming, that I could
> probably convert it to the bytes representation of it by doing something
> along the lines of (presuming a 256bit curve a la secp256k1):
> `PrivKeyNumber.to_bytes(32, byteorder='big')`.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> On Sep 15, 2017 15:40, "Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "raw bytes", keys can be generated and
>> serialized as documented here: https://cryptography.io/
>> en/latest/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec/#serialization
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:11 PM, John Pacific <me at johnpacific.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey there!
>>>
>>> Is there a good way to generate an ECDSA keypair and get the raw bytes
>>> of those keys?
>>>
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