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@ocap/wallet
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Utility function to create and use a forge compatible wallet, the wallet is also DID compatible.
yarn add @ocap/wallet
# OR
npm i @ocap/wallet -S
const assert = require('assert');
const { fromSecretKey, WalletType, fromJSON } = require('@ocap/wallet');
const { types } = require('@ocap/mcrypto');
const sk =
'0xD67C071B6F51D2B61180B9B1AA9BE0DD0704619F0E30453AB4A592B036EDE644E4852B7091317E3622068E62A5127D1FB0D4AE2FC50213295E10652D2F0ABFC7';
const appId = 'zNKtCNqYWLYWYW3gWRA1vnRykfCBZYHZvzKr';
const sig =
'0x08a102851c38c072e42756c1cc70938b5499c8e9358dfe5f383823f56cdb282ffda60fcd581a02c6c673069e5afc0bf09abbe3639b61b84d64fd58ef9f083003';
const type = WalletType({
role: types.RoleType.ROLE_APPLICATION,
pk: types.KeyType.ED25519,
hash: types.HashType.SHA3,
address: types.EncodingType.BASE58,
});
const wallet = fromSecretKey(sk, type);
const message = 'data to sign';
const signature = wallet.sign(message);
assert.equal(signature, sig, 'signature should match');
assert.ok(wallet.verify(message, signature), 'signature should be verified');
const wallet2 = fromJSON(wallet.toJSON());
// Do something with wallet 2
For full documentation, checkout https://asset-chain.netlify.com
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Utility function to create and use an forge compatible crypto wallet
The npm package @ocap/wallet receives a total of 4,096 weekly downloads. As such, @ocap/wallet popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @ocap/wallet demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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