How to generate a Litecoin Private key and correspondent Public Address in C#

Question

I found this C# tool to generate addresses for Bitcoin (compressed and uncompressed):

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Address_Utility

https://github.com/casascius/Bitcoin-Address-Utility

It works perfectly for Bitcoin, but for Litecoin it seems not to work.

Any ideas how to use similar code to generate Litecoin Addresses?

Thanks

Answer 1

That's odd, since BAU's docs say that they ought to work with Litecoin. In the drop-down menu that selects the coin type, have you selected Litecoin?

Alternately, if you're willing to run an RPC node, you could use BitcoinLib, and call CoinService.GetNewAddress(String).

Generally, it's exactly the same as generating Bitcoin addresses, except that the version byte is 48 instead of 0.

Answer 2

Bitcoin and Litecoin have different inner workings, so many of their parts shouldn't be interchangeable.

A short answer to your question could be: do you know C++ ? In this case, you could take a look at the parts of the reference implementation of Litecoin where the addresses are generated, and adapt it to C#.

Another answer would be to find an alternative library, independent of Litecoin reference implementation. One such implementation seems to be Litecoin-PHP-Library, that is a heavily commented PHP code, where you can find answers to your questions. Good luck.