This is what I ended up with:

      std::cout << "public b58:\t" << fc::variant( k2.get_public_key().to_base58() ).as_string()<< "\n";
      std::cout << "public hex:\t" << fc::variant( k2.get_public_key().serialize() ).as_string()<< "\n";

I would like to go from a private HEX key back into public keys.  I'm not really a C coder, but here is my attempt.  Is there a better way, perhaps a way that actually compiles?  Or perhaps there is something already in the toolkit to do this.

      EC_KEY* k= EC_KEY_new();
      EC_GROUP *group = EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name(NID_secp256k1);
      EC_KEY_set_group(k,group);
      fc::sha256 sec=new fc::sha256 sec("5b5ca05c294f6778f84f0f5ea01f017a0c7e10fcf7a3cba6e67ae0e6318b389d");
      //int nbytes = BN_num_bytes(bn);
      //BN_hex2bn( &((unsigned char*)&sec)[32-nbytes], bn);
      EC_KEY_set_private_key(k,sec);
      std::cout << "bts address: "
                      << std::string( bts::blockchain::address( k.get_public_key() ) ) <<"\n";

      std::cout << "pts address: "
                      << std::string( bts::blockchain::pts_address( k.get_public_key() ) ) <<"\n";

This creates a test block chain:

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE
https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit/blob/master/tests/blockchain_tests.cpp#L82

Could I then go into the temp directory it created and start the server (bts_xt_server)?  I assume I need a public key and balance in genesis.json.  Where do I get these values?

I found a project out there, looks rather promising.  I'm wondering if we could make this compatible with BitShares XT.  The project is called Insight: http://live.insight.is .. At github, the description says "A bitcoin blockchain API for web wallets". 

I'm getting a basic cmade error.  I guess this is not BitShares related, but I don't see anything like it on the web.  Does this make any since?

Ubuntu 12.04

 # cmake .
CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Unix Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
Missing variable is:
CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ENV_VAR
CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
Missing variable is:
CMAKE_C_COMPILER
CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file:/BitShares/CMakeFiles/CMakeCCompiler.cmake
CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
Missing variable is:
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ENV_VAR
CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
Missing variable is:
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file:/BitShares/CMakeFiles/CMakeCXXCompiler.cmake
CMake Error: CMAKE_C_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

This is in a minimal ubuntu environment, so I may be missing a dependancy that one might usually expect.  This is how to recreate the entire environment and build error:

# BitShares
sudo su
# https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxc.html
apt-get install lxc --assume-yes
lxc-create -n bitshares -t ubuntu -- --release precise
lxc-start -n bitshares -d
lxc-wait  -n bitshares
lxc-attach -n bitshares
# https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/BitShares
apt-get install g++-4.6 --assume-yes
apt-get install wget --assume-yes
# http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_54_0.html
wget -O boost_1_54_0.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.54.0/boost_1_54_0.tar.gz/download
tar xzf boost_1_54_0.tar.gz
rm boost_1_54_0.tar.gz
pushd boost_1_54_0/
#???
popd
# https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/BitShares
apt-get install cmake --assume-yes
apt-get install uuid-dev
apt-get install git --assume-yes
git clone https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/BitShares.git
cd BitShares
git clone https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/fc.git
cmake .
make

I made a few changes to the Krypto Kit chrome plug-in and Walla!, we have a bitcoin wallet running directly in the browser from static files.  I was able to view a balance and send some coins from the wallet.  Honestly, that is the only thing that works so far.  So, I will continue on and fix the GPG wallet encryption next and perform more testing... 

Feel free to give me some feedback or run some test.  It would be really cool to have a pure client-side web-wallet that supports block chain storage and other block chain implementations like BTS.

Here is the project page: https://code.google.com/p/webit-krypto-kit

the code: the repository history starts with the original Krypto Kit source files with a comment to indicate this.

I could not get any connections using ProtoShares/src/bitcoind (from github.com:InvictusInnovations/ProtoShares.git).  I then started the Windows Wallet and it connected and started synchronizing right away.