Creating Mazzaroth Accounts

All transactions that are submitted to the network will be signed by a private key and contain the sender's public key address for authentication and for use in contracts that depend on the identity of the sender.

A Mazzaroth account can be created by generating an Ed25519 key pair.

The private key should be kept secret and is used to sign transactions to prove that you are the sender.

The public key is used as your public address id within Mazzaroth and is visible to others.

The same keys can be used in any Mazzaroth channel including development networks or public networks. So never share the private key used even for development if you plan on using the same key pair for a public network.

Generating a key pair

You can use openssl version 1.1 or higher to generate a private key based on the ed25519 Curve:

openssl genpkey -algorithm ed25519 -outform PEM -out ed25519key.pem

This outputs a pem file, which can be useful for those that are already familiar with the format. PEM files are a bit more difficult to deal with though, so we've also published a wallet application to docker that can be used to output a key pair.

docker run kochavalabs/mazzaroth-wallet generate-keys