Actually, to compliment my last answer, I would like to add the way to recover they ECKey if it is a public only key:
ECKey.fromPublicOnly(Utils.HEX.decode(hexPubKey) On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 12:52:00 PM UTC+2, vba...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think that I have answered my own question. I guess that it can be done > like this: > > ECKey ecKeyFromHex = > aWalletKitApp.wallet().findKeyFromPubKey(Utils.HEX.decode(hexPubKey)); > > However, I'm still wondering if the reason why there is not a method to do > this directly > (which to me, getting an ECKey from a public key hex seems something very > common to require) is > some conceptual mistake that I have. > > > > > On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 4:21:58 PM UTC+2, vba...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> Is there a way that I can recover an ECKey from the hex? Kind of an >> inverse of ECKey.getPublicKeyAsHex. >> There is something similar with >> DeterministicKey.deserializeB58(base58,params). However, just base58 is >> accepted. >> >> Or may be there is an explanation why I should not be doing that? >> >> Regards. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
