ethjs / Ethjs Account

ethjs-account

A simple Ethereum account utility module.

Warning: if using with React Native, please use a pre-build distribution (i.e. npm run buld -> /dist/..). We will be switching to the Sepcc256k1 module which should resolve this issue.

Install

npm install --save ethjs-account

Usage

const generate = require('ethjs-account').generate;

console.log(generate('[email protected]^[email protected]'));

/* result
{
  address: '0x...',
  privateKey: '0x...',
  publicKey: '0x....',
}
*/

Note, the address exported is the mix case checksum.

About

This module is meant to aid in the management and generation of Ethereum account keys. It is still pending review. Entropy generation is handled by a combination of sha3 hashing, crypto random bytes and provided entropy salt. It is up the developer to ensure good entropy is generated for the accounts.

This module contains methods to convert private keys into Buffer public keys, and Buffer public keys into Ethereum addresses. The sha3 method is exposed as it is needed for key generation.

See the user-guide for more details on good entropy generation, and other module information.

Method API

generate             <Function (String) : (Object)>
getAddress           <Function (String) : (String)>
getChecksumAddress   <Function (String) : (String)>
sha3                 <Function (String, Boolean) : (String)>
privateToPublic      <Function (String) : (Object)>
publicToAddress      <Function (Object) : (String)>
privateToAccount     <Function (String) : (Object)>

Contributing

Please help better the ecosystem by submitting issues and pull requests to ethjs-account. We need all the help we can get to build the absolute best linting standards and utilities. We follow the AirBNB linting standard and the unix philosophy.

Guides

You'll find more detailed information on using ethjs-account and tailoring it to your needs in our guides:

• User guide - Usage, configuration, FAQ and complementary tools.
• Developer guide - Contributing to ethjs-account and writing your own code and coverage.

Help out

There is always a lot of work to do, and will have many rules to maintain. So please help out in any way that you can:

• Create, enhance, and debug ethjs rules (see our guide to "Working on rules").
• Improve documentation.
• Chime in on any open issue or pull request.
• Open new issues about your ideas for making ethjs-account better, and pull requests to show us how your idea works.
• Add new tests to absolutely anything.
• Create or contribute to ecosystem tools.
• Spread the word!

Please consult our Code of Conduct docs before helping out.

We communicate via issues and pull requests.

Important documents

• Changelog
• Code of Conduct
• License

Licence

This project is licensed under the MIT license, Copyright (c) 2016 Nick Dodson/2014 Richard Moore. For more information see LICENSE.md.

The MIT License (MIT)
 
Copyright (c) 2016 Nick Dodson
Copyright (c) 2014 Richard Moore
 
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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Original Port Checksum/getAddress Author

Richard Moore [email protected]