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BIP39 support for ECDSA #43

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jasny opened this issue May 2, 2022 · 0 comments

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jasny commented May 2, 2022 •

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Support BIP39 for generating private keys. For ECDSA, BIP39 should be the only method available for seeding.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/blockchain-series-how-metamask-creates-accounts-a8971b21a74b

The current keyPairFromSeed method should be removed. Create a new class Bip39ECDSA, specifically for seeding.

To test if the implementation is correct

Generate a new account using MetaMask (or another Ethereum wallet that uses BEP39)
Get the 12 (or 24) word seed
Use the seed to generate an ECDSA keypair using Seasalt
Convert the public key into an ethereum address. See docs.

You get a public address for your account by taking the last 20 bytes of the Keccak-256 hash of the public key and adding 0x to the beginning.
The address should be the same address as shown in MetaMask

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BIP39 seed phrase #42

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