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Quick suggestion.

It would be a good idea to tell the users to go into private mode with their browser so that their private key isn't stored in the autocomplete cache. Incognito for Chrome, In-Private for Explorer, etc...

Repro steps:
Go to https://www.bitaddress.org or any bitcoin tool and generate any bitcoin private key

Go to https://github.com/eoscafe/eos-key or https://github.com/webdigi/EOS-Offline-Private-key-check or https://github.com/eosamsterdam/eos-keypair-check , Copy in the private key and view the matching public key. Notice the public keys generated from all three tools match.

Use cleos wallet import command to import the same private key. Notice the public key from cleos doesn't match the tools.

Why don't the BP tool public keys match cleos?

When I start with an EOS private key rather than BTC private key, the tools match cleos wallet import.

I know people are going to say the bug/feature is because I started with a bitcoin private key and not an EOS private key. Any insight beyond that?

As long as I avoid using the BP key checker tools, it seems perfectly ok to use a Bitcoin generated private key and cleos wallet import command to get a matching and working public key. There are no problems with the public key generated by cleos wallet import. It's only the BP tools that generate bad public keys. Why?

Ref:
https://www.reddit.com/r/eos/comments/8so7ef/bp_key_checkers_have_a_bug/
https://www.reddit.com/r/eos/comments/8qzcwa/seems_like_i_lost_170_eos/