Early private key
In the beginning, when you didn't use bitcoin-qt, so no wallet.dat or anything, and WIF wasn't a thing back then, you could write down your 64 hex characters as your private key, but was hmac-sha256 also valid? so you had a secret key(utf-8/latin1) and a utf-8/latin-1 input of 32 characters /bytes
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