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      "body": "![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP2qryJKW3wKt26VqqcZ8FnybbQo2Mmnut2pCr7NR6cfe/image.png)\n\nPrivate keys have been an integral component of Bitcoin since its first description in 2008. Wallet software often attempts to shield users from the need to understand what private keys are and how they work. Even so, most users eventually come face to face with private keys, too often with unpleasant results.\n\nA basic understanding of private keys can help prevent loss of funds and other mishaps, but it can also offer useful insights into how Bitcoin works. This guide outlines the most important private key concepts for effectively using Bitcoin.\nBitcoin: A Secure Messaging System\n\nAlthough Bitcoin is best known as a payment system, underneath it all runs a secure messaging system built on the Internet. Instead of relaying emails, texts, or web pages, the Bitcoin network processes value-transfer messages called transactions. 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Second, Alice needs a way to prevent others from changing her transaction and forging transactions in her name.\n\nBitcoin solves these problems through a system called public key cryptography. This system uses two pieces of information to authenticate messages. A public key identifies a sender or recipient, and can be distributed to others. A private key is used together with the public key to create an unforgeable message signature. The private key must be kept secret. Public and private keys are mathematically linked.\n\nAlice Signs Transaction. Alice signs a transaction to Bob with her private key. Bob will later use Alice’s public key to verify Alice’s signature.\n\nWith this overview in mind, here are six things about private keys to keep in mind as you use Bitcoin.\n\n<h2> 1. A Private Key is Just a Number </h2>\n\nA Bitcoin private key is simply an integer between one and about 1077. 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The difficulty of doing so depends on the quality of the encryption and strength of the password being used. Wallet files can be encrypted on many software wallets by adding a password.\n\n\nAlthough wallet backups are a good idea, they can potentially leak private keys. For example, it may be tempting to save a backup of your software wallet to a cloud storage service such as Dropbox. However, anyone capable of viewing this backup online (which could be a surprisingly long list of people) would be in a position to steal some or all of your funds. A similar problem could arise through emailing backups to yourself or leaving a paper wallet around the house. Encryption can reduce the risk, but not eliminate it altogether.\n\nPreventing the accidental release of private keys is the main purpose of “cold storage.” For more information, see A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Cold Storage.\n\n<h2> 4. 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An address results from applying a multi-step transformation to a public key. This produces a string of text and digits, usually starting with the number “1”.\n\nNotice that no network is needed at any point in the generation of a private key or the corresponding address. Every computer on the Bitcoin network knows about the mathematical relationship between public and private keys. This enables each participant to select private keys and sign transactions independently of the Bitcoin network. The enormous private keyspace ensures that any properly-selected key will be unique.\n\n<h2>5. Security Depends on Choosing a Good Private Key </h2>\n\nKnowledge of a private key is the only verification needed to spend funds from a Bitcoin address. Private keys should therefore be kept secret. However, careless selection of a private key can lead to theft just as easily as its accidental release.\n\nFor example, imagine that we want to use a private key that’s easy to remember. 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      "body": "![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP2qryJKW3wKt26VqqcZ8FnybbQo2Mmnut2pCr7NR6cfe/image.png)\n\nPrivate keys have been an integral component of Bitcoin since its first description in 2008. Wallet software often attempts to shield users from the need to understand what private keys are and how they work. Even so, most users eventually come face to face with private keys, too often with unpleasant results.\n\nA basic understanding of private keys can help prevent loss of funds and other mishaps, but it can also offer useful insights into how Bitcoin works. This guide outlines the most important private key concepts for effectively using Bitcoin.\nBitcoin: A Secure Messaging System\n\nAlthough Bitcoin is best known as a payment system, underneath it all runs a secure messaging system built on the Internet. Instead of relaying emails, texts, or web pages, the Bitcoin network processes value-transfer messages called transactions. 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This signature, like a private key, is just a number selected from a very large range. Wallet software generates a signature by mathematically processing a transaction together with the correct private key.\n\nThis system works because anyone with a transaction and its signature can verify the authenticity of a message. However, a transaction signature is practically impossible to fake. The only way to produce a valid signature for a particular transaction is to use the correct private key.\n\nTwo transactions from Alice to Bob. The first transfers 10 BTC, and the second transfers 2 BTC. The same private key leads to a unique, unguessable signature for each transaction.\n\nUnlike a physical signature you might write on a check, a transaction signature changes if the transaction changes even slightly. The way the signature will change is unpredictable, ensuring that only a person in possession of a private key can provide the correct signature.\n\n<h2> 3. 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The difficulty of doing so depends on the quality of the encryption and strength of the password being used. Wallet files can be encrypted on many software wallets by adding a password.\n\n\nAlthough wallet backups are a good idea, they can potentially leak private keys. For example, it may be tempting to save a backup of your software wallet to a cloud storage service such as Dropbox. However, anyone capable of viewing this backup online (which could be a surprisingly long list of people) would be in a position to steal some or all of your funds. A similar problem could arise through emailing backups to yourself or leaving a paper wallet around the house. Encryption can reduce the risk, but not eliminate it altogether.\n\nPreventing the accidental release of private keys is the main purpose of “cold storage.” For more information, see A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Cold Storage.\n\n<h2> 4. 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An address results from applying a multi-step transformation to a public key. This produces a string of text and digits, usually starting with the number “1”.\n\nNotice that no network is needed at any point in the generation of a private key or the corresponding address. Every computer on the Bitcoin network knows about the mathematical relationship between public and private keys. This enables each participant to select private keys and sign transactions independently of the Bitcoin network. The enormous private keyspace ensures that any properly-selected key will be unique.\n\n<h2>5. Security Depends on Choosing a Good Private Key </h2>\n\nKnowledge of a private key is the only verification needed to spend funds from a Bitcoin address. Private keys should therefore be kept secret. However, careless selection of a private key can lead to theft just as easily as its accidental release.\n\nFor example, imagine that we want to use a private key that’s easy to remember. 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With no clue what the key might be, brute force iteration would be the only option. As we’ve already seen, carrying out this plan is physically impossible.\n\nWhat would happen if the random number generator were not quite random? For example, what if all output private keys were clustered about a constant value within a narrow range?\n\nPrivate Keyspace. Random private key distribution (left) versus one that is clustered (right). The clustered distribution limits the search space, favoring an attacker.\n\nAny attacker aware of such a defect could drastically reduce the necessary search space. Under the right conditions, it would become practical to monitor all of the addresses based on the faulty random number generator and steal funds from any one of them at will.\n\nThe need to select a good private key becomes especially important with brain wallets. One method to create a brain wallet starts with a passphrase such as “to be or not to be”, then applies a mathematical function to convert this text to a private key. Applying the most popular conversion algorithm (SHA-256) to this passphrase generates the address:\n\n1J3m4nneGFppRjx6qv92qyz7EsMVdLfr8R\n\nIf you go to blockexplorerer and search this address, you can see that this address was used recently to store funds, which were immediately withdrawn.\n\nUnfortunately, it’s not always easy to tell what qualifies as an insecure brain wallet passphrase and what doesn’t. Attackers can exploit this uncertainty and the inexperience of new users to steal funds. For example, a thief might compile an enormous database of common phrases and passwords. Such a database might number in the trillions of entries or more, but would still be searchable in its entirety with little computational effort.\n\nCompare this situation to the one with website passwords. If you register for a web service using a password someone else happens to have chosen, you don’t take over their account because your username must be unique. Bitcoin private keys are different in that they serve the dual role of user identification (via address generation) and authentication (via digital signatures).\n\nSecure private keys are generated with a high degree of unpredictability so they can’t be guessed before or after the fact.\n\n<h2>6. Private Keys are (Somewhat) Portable </h2>\n\nFor the most part, wallet software hides the process of generating, using, and storing private keys. However, private keys can become visible from time to time. When this happens, understanding private keys and how they interact with your specific software becomes important.\n\nPaper wallets present the most common route by which private keys show up outside of software wallets. 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