slip10 1.1.0
A reference implementation of the SLIP-0010 specification, which generalizes the BIP-0032 derivation scheme for private and public key pairs in hierarchical deterministic wallets for the curves secp256k1, NIST P-256, ed25519 and curve25519.
Requires Python: <4.0,>=3.8
Keywords: bitcoin, slip10, hdwallet

# python-slip10

A reference implementation of the [SLIP-0010](https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0010.md) specification, which generalizes the [BIP-0032](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) derivation scheme for private and public key pairs in hierarchical deterministic wallets for the curves secp256k1, NIST P-256, ed25519 and curve25519.

## Usage

```python
>>> from slip10 import SLIP10, HARDENED_INDEX
>>> slip10 = SLIP10.from_seed(bytes.fromhex("01"))
# Specify the derivation path as a list ...
>>> slip10.get_xpriv_from_path([1, HARDENED_INDEX, 9998])
'xprv9y4sBgCuub5x2DtbdNBDDCZ3btybk8YZZaTvzV5rmYd3PbU63XLo2QEj6cUt4JAqpF8gJiRKFUW8Vm7thPkccW2DpUvBxASycypEHxmZzts'
# ... Or in usual m/the/path/
>>> slip10.get_xpriv_from_path("m/1/0'/9998")
'xprv9y4sBgCuub5x2DtbdNBDDCZ3btybk8YZZaTvzV5rmYd3PbU63XLo2QEj6cUt4JAqpF8gJiRKFUW8Vm7thPkccW2DpUvBxASycypEHxmZzts'
>>> slip10.get_xpub_from_path([HARDENED_INDEX, 42])
'xpub69uEaVYoN1mZyMon8qwRP41YjYyevp3YxJ68ymBGV7qmXZ9rsbMy9kBZnLNPg3TLjKd2EnMw5BtUFQCGrTVDjQok859LowMV2SEooseLCt1'
# You can also use "h" or "H" to signal for hardened derivation
>>> slip10.get_xpub_from_path("m/0h/42")
'xpub69uEaVYoN1mZyMon8qwRP41YjYyevp3YxJ68ymBGV7qmXZ9rsbMy9kBZnLNPg3TLjKd2EnMw5BtUFQCGrTVDjQok859LowMV2SEooseLCt1'
# You can use pubkey-only derivation
>>> slip10 = SLIP10.from_xpub("xpub6AKC3u8URPxDojLnFtNdEPFkNsXxHfgRhySvVfEJy9SVvQAn14XQjAoFY48mpjgutJNfA54GbYYRpR26tFEJHTHhfiiZZ2wdBBzydVp12yU")
>>> slip10.get_xpub_from_path([42, 43])
'xpub6FL7T3s7GuVb4od1gvWuumhg47y6TZtf2DSr6ModQpX4UFGkQXw8oEVhJXcXJ4edmtAWCTrefD64B9RP4sYSkSumTW1wadTS3SYurBGYccT'
>>> slip10.get_xpub_from_path("m/42/43")
'xpub6FL7T3s7GuVb4od1gvWuumhg47y6TZtf2DSr6ModQpX4UFGkQXw8oEVhJXcXJ4edmtAWCTrefD64B9RP4sYSkSumTW1wadTS3SYurBGYccT'
>>> slip10.get_pubkey_from_path("m/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1")
b'\x02\x0c\xac\n\xa8\x06\x96C\x8e\x9b\xcf\x83]\x0c\rCm\x06\x1c\xe9T\xealo\xa2\xdf\x195\xebZ\x9b\xb8\x9e'
```

## Installation

```
pip install slip10
```

### Dependencies

This package uses [`ecdsa`](https://pypi.org/project/ecdsa/) as a wrapper for secp256k1 and secp256r1 elliptic curve operations and [`cryptography`](https://pypi.org/project/cryptography/) for Ed25519 and curve25519 operations.

### Running the test suite

```
pip3 install poetry
git clone https://github.com/trezor/python-slip10
cd python-slip10
poetry install
poetry run make test
```

## Interface

All public keys below are compressed.

All `path` below are a list of integers representing the index of the key at each depth.

`network` is "main" or "test".

`curve_name` is one of "secp256k1", "secp256r1", "ed25519" or "curve25519".

### SLIP10

#### from_seed(seed, network="main", curve_name="secp256k1")

__*classmethod*__

Instanciate from a raw seed (as `bytes`). See [SLIP-0010's master key
generation](https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0010.md#master-key-generation).

#### from_xpriv(xpriv)

__*classmethod*__

Instanciate with an encoded serialized extended private key (as `str`) as master.

#### from_xpub(xpub)

__*classmethod*__

Instanciate with an encoded serialized extended public key (as `str`) as master.

You'll only be able to derive unhardened public keys.

#### get_child_from_path(path)

Returns a SLIP10 instance of the child pointed by the path.

#### get_extended_privkey_from_path(path)

Returns `(chaincode (bytes), privkey (bytes))` of the private key pointed by the path.

#### get_privkey_from_path(path)

Returns `privkey (bytes)`, the private key pointed by the path.

#### get_extended_pubkey_from_path(path)

Returns `(chaincode (bytes), pubkey (bytes))` of the public key pointed by the path.

Note that you don't need to have provided the master private key if the path doesn't
include an index `>= HARDENED_INDEX`.

#### get_pubkey_from_path(path)

Returns `pubkey (bytes)`, the public key pointed by the path.

Note that you don't need to have provided the master private key if the path doesn't
include an index `>= HARDENED_INDEX`.

#### get_xpriv_from_path(path)

Returns `xpriv (str)` the serialized and encoded extended private key pointed by the given
path.

#### get_xpub_from_path(path)

Returns `xpub (str)` the serialized and encoded extended public key pointed by the given
path.

Note that you don't need to have provided the master private key if the path doesn't
include an index `>= HARDENED_INDEX`.

#### get_xpriv()

Equivalent to `get_xpriv_from_path([])`.

#### get_xpriv_bytes()

Equivalent to `get_xpriv([])`, but not serialized in base58.

#### get_xpub()

Equivalent to `get_xpub_from_path([])`.

#### get_xpub_bytes()

Equivalent to `get_xpub([])`, but not serialized in base58.

#### get_fingerprint()

Returns `fingerprint (bytes)`, equivalent to `utils._pubkey_to_fingerprint(self.pubkey)`.

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).

## [1.1.0] - 2026-02-02

### Added

- A new method `get_fingerprint()` was added.

### Changed

- Drop base58 dependency. Port base58 code directly in-tree as a `base58` module.
- Drop ecdsa dependency. Replace with own implementation of point addition.

## [1.0.1] - 2024-09-03

- Support Python 3.8

## [1.0.0] - 2024-08-20

- First release forked from Antoine Poinsot's python-bip32.