Bitcoin Address Generator in Obfuscated Python

Author

Affiliation

Mingze Gao, PhD

Macquarie University

Never underestimate what programmers can do.

The code below shows a fully-functioning Bitcoin address generator in obfuscated Python (2.5-2.7), which I saw in an interesting article posted in 2013.

_                   =r"""A(W/2,*M(3*G
               *G*V(2*J%P),G,J,G)+((M((J-T
            )*V((G-S)%P),S,T,G)if(S@(G,J))if(
         W%2@(S,T)))if(W@(S,T);H=2**256;import&h
       ashlib&as&h,os,re,bi    nascii&as&k;J$:int(
     k.b2a_hex(W),16);C$:C    (W/    58)+[W%58]if(W@
    [];X=h.new("rip           em    d160");Y$:h.sha25
   6(W).digest();I$                 d=32:I(W/256,d-1)+
  chr(W%256)if(d>0@"";                  U$:J(k.a2b_base
 64(W));f=J(os.urando       m(64))        %(H-U("AUVRIxl
Qt1/EQC2hcy/JvsA="))+      1;M$Q,R,G       :((W*W-Q-G)%P,
(W*(G+2*Q-W*W)-R)%P)       ;P=H-2**       32-977;V$Q=P,L=
1,O=0:V(Q%W,W,O-Q/W*                      L,L)if(W@O%P;S,
T=A(f,U("eb5mfvncu6                    xVoGKVzocLBwKb/Nst
zijZWfKBWxb4F5g="),      U("SDra         dyajxGVdpPv8DhEI
qP0XtEimhVQZnEfQj/       sQ1Lg="),        0,0);F$:"1"+F(W
 [1:])if(W[:1           ]=="\0"@""        .join(map(B,C(
  J(W))));K$:               F(W          +Y(Y(W))[:4]);
   X.update(Y("\4"+                     I(S)+I(T)));B$
    :re.sub("[0OIl    _]|            [^\\w]","","".jo
     in(map(chr,ra    nge    (123))))[W];print"Addre
       ss:",K("\0"+X.dig    est())+"\nPrivkey:",K(
         "\x80"+I(f))""";exec(reduce(lambda W,X:
            W.replace(*X),zip(" \n&$@",["","",
               " ","=lambda W,",")else "])
                    ,"A$G,J,S,T:"+_))

I’ve tested it on Python 2.7 on Ubuntu. Working like a charm.

Screenshot of running the obfuscated code to generate a Bitcoin address

Warning

Don’t use this address! The private key is not private!