Generating and verifying keys

1. Installing

Installing packages

echo "deb [trusted=yes] http://packages.o1test.net $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mina.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y curl unzip mina-mainnet=1.3.0-9b0369c

Installing the key generator

sudo apt-get install mina-generate-keypair=1.3.0-9b0369c

2. Generating keys

When creating keys, you will be asked to create a password.

Option 1 with a package:

mina-generate-keypair -privkey-path ~/keys/my-wallet

Option 2 using docker:

sudo docker run  --interactive --tty --rm --volume $(pwd)/keys:/keys minaprotocol/mina-generate-keypair:1.3.0-9b0369c --privkey-path /keys/my-wallet

Set the rights:

chmod 700 $HOME/keys
chmod 600 $HOME/keys/my-wallet

3. Key verification

When checking the key, you will be asked to enter the password from it.

Option 1 with a package:

mina-validate-keypair -privkey-path ~/keys/my-wallet

Option 2 using docker:

sudo docker run --interactive --tty --rm --entrypoint=mina-validate-keypair --volume $(pwd)/keys:/keys minaprotocol/mina-generate-keypair:1.3.0-9b0369c -privkey-path /keys/my-wallet

In both cases, if everything is ok with your keys, you will receive a message:

Verified a transaction using specified keypair

It means your keys have been verified.

4. Exporting keys

Now let's write your public key to the server in the .bashrc file so that we don't export them again next time.

echo 'export KEYPATH=$HOME/keys/my-wallet' >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo 'export MINA_PUBLIC_KEY=$(cat $HOME/keys/my-wallet.pub)' >> $HOME/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc