scure-bip32
Secure, audited & minimal implementation of BIP32 hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets.
Compared to popular hdkey
package, scure-bip32:
- Is 418KB all-bundled instead of 5.9MB
- Uses 3 dependencies instead of 24
- Had an external security audit by Cure53 on Jan 5, 2022
Check out scure-bip39 if you need mnemonic phrases. See ed25519-keygen if you need SLIP-0010/BIP32 HDKey implementation.
This library belongs to scure
scure — secure, independently audited packages for every use case.
Usage
npm install @scure/bip32
Or
yarn add @scure/bip32
This module exports a single class HDKey
, which should be used like this:
const { HDKey } = require("@scure/bip32");
const hdkey1 = HDKey.fromMasterSeed(seed);
const hdkey2 = HDKey.fromExtendedKey(base58key);
const hdkey3 = HDKey.fromJSON({ xpriv: string });
[hdkey1.depth, hdkey1.index, hdkey1.chainCode];
console.log(hdkey2.privateKey, hdkey2.publicKey);
console.log(hdkey3.derive("m/0/2147483647'/1"));
const sig = hdkey3.sign(hash);
hdkey3.verify(hash, sig);
Note: chainCode
property is essentially a private part
of a secret "master" key, it should be guarded from unauthorized access.
The full API is:
class HDKey {
public static HARDENED_OFFSET: number;
public static fromMasterSeed(seed: Uint8Array, versions: Versions): HDKey;
public static fromExtendedKey(base58key: string, versions: Versions): HDKey;
public static fromJSON(json: { xpriv: string }): HDKey;
readonly versions: Versions;
readonly depth: number = 0;
readonly index: number = 0;
readonly chainCode: Uint8Array | null = null;
readonly parentFingerprint: number = 0;
get fingerprint(): number;
get identifier(): Uint8Array | undefined;
get pubKeyHash(): Uint8Array | undefined;
get privateKey(): Uint8Array | null;
get publicKey(): Uint8Array | null;
get privateExtendedKey(): string;
get publicExtendedKey(): string;
derive(path: string): HDKey;
deriveChild(index: number): HDKey;
sign(hash: Uint8Array): Uint8Array;
verify(hash: Uint8Array, signature: Uint8Array): boolean;
wipePrivateData(): this;
}
interface Versions {
private: number;
public: number;
}
The hdkey
submodule provides a library for keys derivation according to
BIP32.
It has almost the exact same API than the version 1.x
of
hdkey
from cryptocoinjs,
but it's backed by this package's primitives, and has built-in TypeScript types.
Its only difference is that it has to be be used with a named import.
The implementation is loosely based on hdkey, which has MIT License.
Security
The library has been audited by Cure53 on Jan 5, 2022. Check out the audit PDF & URL. See changes since audit.
- The library was initially developed for js-ethereum-cryptography
- At commit ae00e6d7, it
was extracted to a separate package called
micro-bip32
- After the audit we've decided to use NPM namespace for security. Since
@micro
namespace was taken, we've renamed the package to @scure/bip32
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2022 Patricio Palladino, Paul Miller (paulmillr.com)