Understand how a crypto keypair is generated in Ethereum blockchain?

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Understand how a crypto keypair is generated in Ethereum blockchain? #10

Open hypermine-bc opened 4 years ago

hypermine-bc commented 4 years ago

What algorithm?
What key-size?
What library?
Just focus on cryptographic key-pair generation
To remind you, we need not to know anything about Blockchain in general for this task.
etc.

likitha2 commented 4 years ago

Does ethereum uses ECC and KECCAK 256?

likitha2 commented 4 years ago

Ethereum uses ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature) for for public key cryptography https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/3619 This reply (given in the link above) by "Tayvano" explains the key generation steps of ethereum