#encryption

2 posts tagged with #encryption

• Development

  2018-05-08

  Inside the Ethereum KeyStore File (2/2): Decryption and follow-ups

  How a private key is recovered from an Ethereum KeyStore file — password verification, mac comparison, AES decryption — plus follow-up questions on the design.

  • #ethereum
  • #keystore
  • #encryption
  • #cryptography
• Development

  2018-03-25

  Inside the Ethereum KeyStore File (1/2): Generation and encryption

  How an Ethereum KeyStore file holds and encrypts a private key, walked through step by step — ECDSA, Scrypt, AES, and SHA3-256.

  • #ethereum
  • #keystore
  • #encryption
  • #cryptography