secp256k1
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Package description
The secp256k1 npm package provides an implementation of the elliptic curve secp256k1, which is widely used in cryptographic applications, particularly in blockchain technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. This package allows for key generation, signing, and verification of messages using the secp256k1 curve.
Key Generation
This feature allows you to generate a private key and derive the corresponding public key using the secp256k1 curve.
const secp256k1 = require('secp256k1');
const crypto = require('crypto');
// Generate a private key
let privateKey;
do {
privateKey = crypto.randomBytes(32);
} while (!secp256k1.privateKeyVerify(privateKey));
// Generate the public key
const publicKey = secp256k1.publicKeyCreate(privateKey);
console.log('Private Key:', privateKey.toString('hex'));
console.log('Public Key:', publicKey.toString('hex'));Message Signing
This feature allows you to sign a message hash using a private key, producing a signature and a recovery ID.
const secp256k1 = require('secp256k1');
const crypto = require('crypto');
// Generate a private key
let privateKey;
do {
privateKey = crypto.randomBytes(32);
} while (!secp256k1.privateKeyVerify(privateKey));
// Create a message hash
const message = 'Hello, world!';
const msgHash = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(message).digest();
// Sign the message hash
const sigObj = secp256k1.ecdsaSign(msgHash, privateKey);
console.log('Signature:', sigObj.signature.toString('hex'));
console.log('Recovery ID:', sigObj.recid);Signature Verification
This feature allows you to verify a signature against a message hash and a public key, ensuring the authenticity of the message.
const secp256k1 = require('secp256k1');
const crypto = require('crypto');
// Generate a private key
let privateKey;
do {
privateKey = crypto.randomBytes(32);
} while (!secp256k1.privateKeyVerify(privateKey));
// Generate the public key
const publicKey = secp256k1.publicKeyCreate(privateKey);
// Create a message hash
const message = 'Hello, world!';
const msgHash = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(message).digest();
// Sign the message hash
const sigObj = secp256k1.ecdsaSign(msgHash, privateKey);
// Verify the signature
const isValid = secp256k1.ecdsaVerify(sigObj.signature, msgHash, publicKey);
console.log('Signature is valid:', isValid);The elliptic package is a general-purpose elliptic curve library that supports multiple curves, including secp256k1. It provides similar functionalities for key generation, signing, and verification but also supports other curves like ed25519 and p256. It is more versatile but may be more complex to use for secp256k1-specific applications.
The bitcoinjs-lib package is a comprehensive library for Bitcoin-related operations, including key generation, signing, and verification using secp256k1. While it offers similar functionalities, it is more specialized for Bitcoin and includes additional features like transaction creation and parsing.
The noble-secp256k1 package is a modern, fast, and secure implementation of the secp256k1 elliptic curve. It focuses on performance and security, providing similar functionalities for key generation, signing, and verification. It is a good alternative if performance and security are critical.
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This module provides native bindings to bitcoin-core/secp256k1. In browser elliptic will be used.
This library is experimental, so use at your own risk. Works on node version 4.0.0 or greater.
npm install secp256k1
git clone git@github.com:cryptocoinjs/secp256k1-node.git
cd secp256k1-node
git submodule update --init
npm install
The easiest way to build the package on windows is to install windows-build-tools.
Or install the following software:
And run commands:
npm config set msvs_version 2015 --global
npm install npm@next -g
Based on:
const { randomBytes } = require('crypto')
const secp256k1 = require('secp256k1')
// or require('secp256k1/elliptic')
// if you want to use pure js implementation in node
// generate message to sign
const msg = randomBytes(32)
// generate privKey
let privKey
do {
privKey = randomBytes(32)
} while (!secp256k1.privateKeyVerify(privKey))
// get the public key in a compressed format
const pubKey = secp256k1.publicKeyCreate(privKey)
// sign the message
const sigObj = secp256k1.sign(msg, privKey)
// verify the signature
console.log(secp256k1.verify(msg, sigObj.signature, pubKey))
// => true
* .verify return false for high signatures
Project has yet one secp256k1 implementation based on elliptic and bn.js. The main purpose of this smaller size, high performance and easy code audit. This implementation is super experimental, use it at your own risk.
This library is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.
FAQs
This module provides native bindings to ecdsa secp256k1 functions
The npm package secp256k1 receives a total of 1,008,483 weekly downloads. As such, secp256k1 popularity was classified as popular.
We found that secp256k1 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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