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dumpprivkey

Command#

pacprotocol-cli dumpprivkey "address"

Reveals the private key corresponding to 'address'. Then the importprivkey can be used with this output

Arguments#

address *#

(string, required)

The PAC address for the private key

Examples#

pacprotocol-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"
pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey"
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "dumpprivkey", "params": ["myaddress"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/

Result#

"key" #(string) The private key

Running following help command

pacprotocol-cli help dumpprivkey

Will produce following output:

dumpprivkey "address"
Reveals the private key corresponding to 'address'.
Then the importprivkey can be used with this output
Arguments:
1. "address" (string, required) The PAC address for the private key
Result:
"key" (string) The private key
Examples:
> pacprotocol-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"
> pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "dumpprivkey", "params": ["myaddress"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/