09:22:54 <guesswork> i'm looking to learn about the keys in monero, but i am missing something
09:23:28 <guesswork> i take the secret key from monero and use another tool to generate a public key from it
09:24:00 <guesswork> but this then doesn't match the public key from monero
09:25:33 <TheEpTic> Monero keys are very complex, there's a white paper on it I believe or you could find a youtube video that explains it too. Alternatively, someone with a lot of knowledge will eventually come through and blow your mind haha
09:26:06 <moneromoooo> Are you asking us to understand what that other tool does differently than monero ?
09:30:30 <guesswork> no. the other tool is only deriving an ed25519 pubkey from an ed25519 private key
09:30:53 <guesswork> and so it appears the ones from monero aren't exactly ed25519 keys as they're displayed i guess
09:31:21 <moneromoooo> You might have confused endianness, depending on how you get that key.
09:33:08 <guesswork> monero's is little-endian right?
09:33:51 <moneromoooo> most significant byte at the end.
09:34:05 <moneromoooo> I believe this is the opposite of Bitcoin.
09:39:16 <guesswork> you think if i turn around whatever the viewkey command tells me, generate a public key from it, turn it back around, i might get a matching result?
09:40:38 <guesswork> actually i am working with the hex strings so that probably doesn't make sense
09:45:35 <moneromoooo> Maybe. It's worth a shot based on what you said.
13:15:39 <guesswork> changing endianness didn't resolve this
13:18:07 <guesswork> recap: i output the viewkey in monero-cli, then i copy the secret key that it tells me
13:18:53 <guesswork> then i read the secret key as ed25519 into openssl and tell it to give me the corresponding public key
13:19:29 <guesswork> then the public key i get does not match the public key that monero-cli showed me alongside the secret key in the beginning