From 47e876032d8c5f1fe6ebd8ef163e7ab8a574c592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Auqib92 <auqib92@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:50:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] support for accepting Secret Key in Hex

---
 ellipticcurve/privateKey.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js b/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js
index fcd469e..cf3671a 100644
--- a/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js
+++ b/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ class PrivateKey {
     static fromString (string, curve=EcdsaCurve.secp256k1) {
         return new PrivateKey(curve, BinaryAscii.numberFromString(string));
     };
+     // Support for Accepting Secert Key in Hex
+     static fromHexString(string, curve=EcdsaCurve.secp256k1) {
+        return new PrivateKey(curve, BinaryAscii.numberFromHex(string));
+    };
 };
 
 

From 2676959d78c50f15188e362555a24910fcc3d797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Auqib92 <auqib92@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:40:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Added support to view Private Key in hex

---
 ellipticcurve/privateKey.js | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js b/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js
index cf3671a..8cf7598 100644
--- a/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js
+++ b/ellipticcurve/privateKey.js
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ class PrivateKey {
     toString () {
         return BinaryAscii.stringFromNumber(this.secret, this.curve.length());
     };
-
+    toHexString () {
+        return this.secret.toString(16);
+    };
     toDer () {
         let encodedPublicKey = this.publicKey().toString(true);