A discussion in chat has produced the following overview of key handling in OB. We should incorporate this into the Concepts section with some additional fleshing-out.
As it currently stands, we do this:
ipfsSeed := bip39.NewSeed(mnemonic, "Secret Passphrase")
identityKey := IdentityKeyFromSeed(ipfsSeed) // this does the hmac with "OpenBazaar Seed". This is the ipfs key.
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bitcoinSeed := bip39.NewSeed(mnemonic, "")
masterPrivKey := bip32.NewMaster(bitcoinSeed)
pubkey := masterPrivKey.ECPublicKey()
pubkeyBytes := pubkey.SerializedCompressed() // this is what is in the 'bitcoin' field in the contract. Base64 serialized.
@cpacia notes that this would (hopefully) change in a future iteration of the software to allow for more flexible key handling.
A discussion in chat has produced the following overview of key handling in OB. We should incorporate this into the Concepts section with some additional fleshing-out.
As it currently stands, we do this:
@cpacia notes that this would (hopefully) change in a future iteration of the software to allow for more flexible key handling.