npm package: @loranza/keys
Description: Helpers for generating and transforming key material
Author: Solana Labs Maintainers
Latest version: 6.1.1

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# @solana/keys

This package contains utilities for validating, generating, and manipulating addresses and key material. It can be used standalone, but it is also exported as part of Kit [`@solana/kit`](https://github.com/anza-xyz/kit/tree/main/packages/kit).

## Types

### `Signature`

This type represents a 64-byte Ed25519 signature as a base58-encoded string.

### `SignatureBytes`

This type represents a 64-byte Ed25519 signature.

Whenever you need to verify that a particular signature is, in fact, the one that would have been produced by signing some known bytes using the private key associated with some known public key, use the `verifySignature()` function in this package.

## Functions

### `assertIsSignature()`

From time to time you might acquire a string that you expect to be a base58-encoded signature (eg. of a transaction) from an untrusted network API or user input. To assert that such an arbitrary string is in fact an Ed25519 signature, use the `assertIsSignature` function.

```ts
import { assertIsSignature } from '@solana/keys';

// Imagine a function that asserts whether a user-supplied signature is valid or not.
function handleSubmit() {
    // We know only that what the user typed conforms to the `string` type.
    const signature: string = signatureInput.value;
    try {
        // If this type assertion function doesn't throw, then
        // Typescript will upcast `signature` to `Signature`.
        assertIsSignature(signature);
        // At this point, `signature` is a `Signature` that can be used with the RPC.
        const {
            value: [status],
        } = await rpc.getSignatureStatuses([signature]).send();
    } catch (e) {
        // `signature` turned out not to be a base58-encoded signature
    }
}
```

### `generateKeyPair()`

Generates an Ed25519 public/private key pair for use with other methods in this package that accept `CryptoKey` objects.

```ts
import { generateKeyPair } from '@solana/keys';

const { privateKey, publicKey } = await generateKeyPair();
```

### `createKeyPairFromBytes()`

Given a 64-byte `Uint8Array` secret key, creates an Ed25519 public/private key pair for use with other methods in this package that accept `CryptoKey` objects.

```ts
import fs from 'fs';
import { createKeyPairFromBytes } from '@solana/keys';

// Get bytes from local keypair file.
const keypairFile = fs.readFileSync('~/.config/solana/id.json');
const keypairBytes = new Uint8Array(JSON.parse(keypairFile.toString()));

// Create a CryptoKeyPair from the bytes.
const { privateKey, publicKey } = await createKeyPairFromBytes(keypairBytes);
```

### `createKeyPairFromPrivateKeyBytes()`

Given a private key represented as a 32-bytes `Uint8Array`, creates an Ed25519 public/private key pair for use with other methods in this package that accept `CryptoKey` objects.

```ts
import { createKeyPairFromPrivateKeyBytes } from '@solana/keys';

const { privateKey, publicKey } = await createKeyPairFromPrivateKeyBytes(new Uint8Array([...]));
```

This can be useful when you have a private key but not the corresponding public key or when you need to derive key pairs from seeds. For instance, the following code snippet derives a key pair from the hash of a message.

```ts
import { getUtf8Encoder } from '@solana/codecs-strings';
import { createKeyPairFromPrivateKeyBytes } from '@solana/keys';

const message = getUtf8Encoder().encode('Hello, World!');
const seed = new Uint8Array(await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', message));

const derivedKeypair = await createKeyPairFromPrivateKeyBytes(seed);
```

### `createPrivateKeyFromBytes()`

Given a private key represented as a 32-byte `Uint8Array`, creates an Ed25519 private key for use with other methods in this package that accept `CryptoKey` objects.

```ts
import { createPrivateKeyFromBytes } from '@solana/keys';

const privateKey = await createPrivateKeyFromBytes(new Uint8Array([...]));
const extractablePrivateKey = await createPrivateKeyFromBytes(new Uint8Array([...]), true);
```

### `getPublicKeyFromPrivateKey()`

Given an extractable `CryptoKey` private key, gets the corresponding public key as a `CryptoKey`.

```ts
import { createPrivateKeyFromBytes, getPublicKeyFromPrivateKey } from '@solana/keys';

const privateKey = await createPrivateKeyFromBytes(new Uint8Array([...]), true);

const publicKey = await getPublicKeyFromPrivateKey(privateKey);
const extractablePublicKey = await getPublicKeyFromPrivateKey(privateKey, true);
```

### `isSignature()`

This is a type guard that accepts a string as input. It will both return `true` if the string conforms to the `Signature` type and will refine the type for use in your program.

```ts
import { isSignature } from '@solana/keys';

if (isSignature(signature)) {
    // At this point, `signature` has been refined to a
    // `Signature` that can be used with the RPC.
    const {
        value: [status],
    } = await rpc.getSignatureStatuses([signature]).send();
    setSignatureStatus(status);
} else {
    setError(`${signature} is not a transaction signature`);
}
```

### `signBytes()`

Given a private `CryptoKey` and a `Uint8Array` of bytes, this method will return the 64-byte Ed25519 signature of that data as a `Uint8Array`.

```ts
import { signBytes } from '@solana/keys';

const data = new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]);
const signature = await signBytes(privateKey, data);
```

### `signature()`

This helper combines _asserting_ that a string is an Ed25519 signature with _coercing_ it to the `Signature` type. It's best used with untrusted input.

```ts
import { signature } from '@solana/keys';

const signature = signature(userSuppliedSignature);
const {
    value: [status],
} = await rpc.getSignatureStatuses([signature]).send();
```

### `verifySignature()`

Given a public `CryptoKey`, some `SignatureBytes`, and a `Uint8Array` of data, this method will return `true` if the signature was produced by signing the data using the private key associated with the public key, and `false` otherwise.

```ts
import { verifySignature } from '@solana/keys';

const data = new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]);
if (!(await verifySignature(publicKey, signature, data))) {
    throw new Error('The data were *not* signed by the private key associated with `publicKey`');
}
```