ssb-keymaker

Simple cli tool to generate and sign an ephemeral ssb keypair using a master identity.

usage

Running ssb-keymaker will read your ssb identity from ~/.ssb/secret or generate it if it doesn't already exist. It will also generate an ephemeral keypair and sign the ephemeral keypairs public key.

ssb-keymaker

Which will generate an object and print it too the console...

{
  ephemeral: {
    curve: 'ed25519',
    public: '+zKX54LLmvKGksJ7zrUyiSkRkqLbbNt9CLoS86AIRwQ=.ed25519',
    private: '01Obt3/Yzq0RrDohIPsxTTaw+AbTl/CTv81724i6vX77Mpfngsua8oaSwnvOtTKJKRGSotts230IuhLzoAhHBA==.ed25519',
    id: '@+zKX54LLmvKGksJ7zrUyiSkRkqLbbNt9CLoS86AIRwQ=.ed25519'
  },
  master: 'xX4fSbR38HrgxDq1al1fjrQABxCybokAEFXcZ758840=.ed25519',
  public: '+zKX54LLmvKGksJ7zrUyiSkRkqLbbNt9CLoS86AIRwQ=.ed25519',
  expires: 'never',
  signature: '+ABk2/FsEVN8TR1QW9UMTKOHSUBxv8TxIIWB7kogGCq31GVe1ospRGKPGWdWyn2BDh9bjWebrG/VYFnKTEEuBA==.sig.ed25519'
}

todo

• add an expiry to the generated keypair
• add help and more command line options
• split into library and cli tool
• get feedback and peer review
• allow signing the entire keypair for some use cases?

feedback

Please leave feedback and comments as issues. Cheers!

related

• ssb-ephemeral-keys

install

npm i ssb-keymaker -g