How to Generate Key Pairs

In this section, we will show how you can generate public and private key pairs in two different ways. First option is a suggest_brain_key option, you can use it in cli_wallet. The second option is a get_dev_key option in the programs/genesis_util/. You can use this with the corresponding network prefix(“BTS”, “TEST”, “MY”, etc).

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Attention

In this section, we tested two options in the BitShares PUBLIC TESTNET environment. We downloaded the testnet branch and build the wetness_node and cli_wallet programs. Therefore, each public key starts “TEST…”. If you try the same command lines in the Mainnet environment, you will get each private key starts “BTS…”. This will happen automatically, if you use the options by the programs from the correct branch.

suggest_brain_key option

Example

locked >>> unlock yoursuperpwd
null
unlocked >>>
unlocked >>> suggest_brain_key
{
  "brain_priv_key": "AUTARKY BOUDOIR RESOAK IFE KEEPING SLA SERAIL UROSIS OUTWALK PIERCER WOKE MOHO YEAROCK APRAXIA UNREADY AMNIC",
  "wif_priv_key": "5JATtPJEFQXRqDwVeTWHBk1UuuRmfXDYTtUwfuerE6VncFT6HX8",
  "pub_key": "TEST6LiMuZQxJpeGB7TuRDfqCwwXws3aieZwyC3S1hq5SbPVLFEbbf"
}

• wif_priv_key : private key

• pub_key : public key

get_dev_key option

You can generate more than one key pairs at the same time in one command line. This get_dev_key option is simply combine the prefix with all given suffixes, compute a hash over each combination, and use that hash as a private key, from which the matching public key and address are generated.

// checking Help -- ./get_dev_key --help

 ../bitshars-testnet/programs/genesis_util# ./get_dev_key --help
2 --help
get_dev_key <prefix> <suffix> ...

example:

get_dev_key wxyz- owner-5 active-7 balance-9 wit-block-signing-3 wit-owner-5 wit-active-33
get_dev_key wxyz- wit-block-signing-0:101

Example

// command line(1):  ./get_dev_key TEST testkey1 testkey2 testkey3 testkey4 testkey5

.../bitshares-core-testnet/programs/genesis_util# ./get_dev_key TEST testkey1 testkey2 testkey3 testkey4 testkey5
[{"private_key":"5HtmkHtjSFmimjoFW96CWbdE12QWKYkqv1EDY5GSPKj7gaKgL1W","public_key":"TEST5wXFqFYzCsGLPagLbuh2e6kiUi91tGvyCfz76Q3aNJ63xMVza1","address":"TESTHZhCbRvo3rjEXMbL4JoKi49ThVpXpwp21"},
{"private_key":"5JUE1x9nbRSKAEr38GG7dKtsQGDSYMWAyZxtkydTCzooRRYyQTq","public_key":"TEST7pqhvduRogShfBwwtcD7trFaCbT5eHpNN2AYCAUHtbCVCB6yys","address":"TESTNELqgKWgbPpwwfszNeY4iY5dRvxra5Qji"},
{"private_key":"5KLrir6U8JbtC7u65fekaznfztJxR9zoTq3wgGmTQsr46HdMoLH","public_key":"TEST7bxKinMaZZH7Z6Bcs4yVMCasfVMJ3CGCNiKLvKcKGLFmGdoEUF","address":"TESTVaUZWAZiYBw52kJZ3KJnhPkeDGz9dy7M"},
{"private_key":"5K4AtJkfXbpP6VLoBSq9hZEfYc85hDGxMrhC19DWcwUC3YJNFnx","public_key":"TEST77e2JK5pmgGbhKwy45uDaSwCcq86eWDPc7cepFxfVBbViWUgy8","address":"TEST71H99xQQcxHXHAFoWgYTdyKHz9FG2Pc6W"},
{"private_key":"5JSQetLWRHzrxQNzWH1k7pZwmMUyHDhc9ZAJM45QFDhX1cPu4JB","public_key":"TEST8BTeSAEAw9CdGALBew3Fm2Sf2mGxs2AdnQj2mSJZsULWTHa5oc","address":"TESTEFWJw8Ztnssmyjpj84b9WEHvGRjSa1AS5"}]

// command line(2):  ./get_dev_key wxyz- owner-5 active-7 balance-9 wit-block-signing-3 wit-owner-5 wit-active-33

.../bitshares-testnet/programs/genesis_util# ./get_dev_key wxyz- owner-5 active-7 balance-9 wit-block-signing-3 wit-owner-5 wit-active-33
[{"private_key":"5KJZnAJLuCNnGV7McZuFB6D2Q4ntA1XjVLd6u1k7a9C36mJEEdh","public_key":"TEST6YoHyPyqeHgbs6zXd3eZHVheeT4F2BVD5PGr7VRg7koUCWvHYE","address":"TESTAJoKZqnpD6XzwNZ9gpk3KrE33QbaNqz1M"},
{"private_key":"5JJP3BcaaydsdF7anQjSaSvvbTyjKHZWnvwHupQGZepoq6XANXB","public_key":"TEST7T5XdWo3dzvGtzqinixjYYCjbbgmyABJC1PEKijP4apLG4NgJ8","address":"TESTPj31YZiuGUjGzFDw2pb6mcqF7U2tqh5Fw"},
{"private_key":"5J2AQyM68u7T69HUY1f3zSZk1frWwsWg7sBHg2X39NsnB4gz7bG","public_key":"TEST51sWsPC17ZeQF5G1yZNZ8hJUdWWLRA9dryq4PYf7F6ucCMULvG","address":"TESTHjEUZvjUEEhYpwJ9P8qB35pe9fareR7Wa"},
{"private_key":"5JEPUkGTJkbCmBaYd7jEKbey6sBaosXjVWDey4FWcRcE73pgcxd","public_key":"TEST8ESMESfyoQZJRuPHH9ipjqQx5ub48DbLg4sFtRea7njZ6CZ1mH","address":"TESTM22mSafknaPoFfheuy2NLMVKtsdxgPd2P"},
{"private_key":"5JLJM1uGLTdYhnFtf55Q9pmeVaik3MpdRVnG3dHrU4NF9ApvooC","public_key":"TEST8C8qWTyFjSeMEpKbSVe3JWjWaT2GFiNvBLap4L3xwAEoL54thh","address":"TESTGNQ8U2R6Jw5WGz8MnzcnyCy3ZshnYybx9"},
{"private_key":"5HtEFk4HoxqwzgisXXZdqVtFVZi7MtRb6zSqGCtf2batXeGiwna","public_key":"TEST7darzT9LVBVm5ppyS6smFbbpC7J5whfSRjwxqeUvZPFt57K7E7","address":"TEST6MQccyUo3G4uVFHgjGZyno8mCCBV2Zxyk"}]

Sample Output

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