First and foremost, do not use this code. I can't stress that enough. Literally nothing here fully implements any of the specs defined by any of the standards. And it's not exactly the best Python code I've ever written (:sorrynotsorry:).
Here are just some of the ways this is incomplete (and will never be finished):
- poor distinction between compressed and uncompressed private/public keys
- no hardening in the extended keys
- no validation of checksum errors
- I never even tested creating more than one child per generation
I wrote this to satisfy my skepticism that child XPUBs could in fact be created without their corresponding XPRVs. And... they can! Way cool. And that led to me writing a blog post. BIP 32 is really pretty neat.
Other things of note here:
- This is my first attempt at using mypy and static typing in lieu of heavy classes to manage complex typing (not everywhere, just the tricky internals), and I mostly like it. It makes some things harder to read, but it def caught some bugs.
- This is intentionally not built to be an includable python package (e.g. it's only python 3.6). Don't include it. Seriously. This is not an endorsement, but https://github.com/prusnak/bip32utils has implemented way more than I have. Maybe start there?
- get into a python 3.6 environment
- install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt- run it
python run_me.pyMaybe something like this?
python tests.py && mypy xpub_stuffRemember when websites used to have a page of links??
- blog post: https://xgess.com/blog/230
- full spec for extended keys: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki