How to generates the private and public key from a given name or address?

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I want to generate both keys for transaction and also let me know how to calculate the processing time using solidity for the whole program?

You want to generate the private key for any given address??? Well who doesn't... — goodvibration, May 21 '18 at 06:28
Yes i want to generate the both keys from the given address and calculate the processing time — aarthi, May 21 '18 at 06:48

rahul_eth · Answer 1 · 2018-05-21T09:42:33.347

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The address is 20-byte hexadecimal string that is being generated by taking Keccak-256 hash of the public key. but the reverse is not possible. for more info check below link http://ethdocs.org/en/latest/glossary.html, How are ethereum addresses generated?

edited May 21 '18 at 09:42

answered May 21 '18 at 07:56

rahul_eth

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