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Wallet privatekey formats ​

Wallets often apply transformations to the raw privatekey to prevent the original text being exposed to malicious third parties. While this does not protect the address's balance, it does protect the address's owner from password reuse attacks. The most common wallet format used is the Kristwallet Format.

kristwallet Format ​

This format is the most common format. It is most notably used by kristwallet, KWallet, Smallet and KristWeb.

It applies the following transformations:

  • Prepend KRISTWALLET to the privatekey
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Append -000

k.lua ​

If you are using k.lua, you can use k.toKristWalletFormat(privatekey).

Plain lua ​

This requires a sha256 API. Example code to perform these operations would look like this:

lua
sha256("KRISTWALLET" .. privatekey) .. "-000"

API Format ​

This format is usually used by programs. It applies no transformations to the privatekey - it just sends the plain privatekey to the Krist node.

kristwallet_username Format ​

This is a legacy format originally implemented in kristwallet_username. It requires both a privatekey and a username. It is implemented in KristWeb, and kristwallet_username.

It applies the following transformations:

  • Prepend KRISTWALLETEXTENSION to the pre-appendhashes algorithm
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Append -000;

Plain lua ​

This requires a sha256 API. Example code to perform these operations would look like this:

lua
sha256("KRISTWALLETEXTENSION" .. sha256(sha256(username) .. "^" .. sha256(privatekey))) .. "-000"

jwalelset format ​

This is a format implemented by jwalelset and KristWeb.

It applies the following transformations:

  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256
  • Hash the whole string with sha256

Plain lua ​

This requires a sha256 API. Example code to perform these operations would look like this:

lua
sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(sha256(privatekey))))))))))))))))))