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NaCl compatible cryptography library using Bouncy Castle (Java)

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BIP39 support for ED25519 #44

Open jasny opened 2 years ago

jasny commented 2 years ago

Support BIP39 for generating private keys. For ED25519, BIP39 should an alternative to the current (brainwallet) seeding method.

Choosing BIP39 seeding should result in the same key pair for seed when using Ledger.

The current keyPairFromSeed method should move to a separate class BrainwalletEd25519. And a new class Bip39Ed25519 should be added.

To test if the implementation is correct

Generate a new wallet for LTO Network on Ledger
Get the 24-word seed
Use the seed to generate an Ed25519 keypair using Seasalt
Convert the public key to an address using the python or java library.
The address should be the same address as shown on the Ledger device.

jasny commented 1 year ago

This is not supported in clients of other languages (js, python). BIP32 / BIP39 is only supported for secp256k1. No need to support this unless it's changed in the LTO protocol and supported everywhere.