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Logan Saether
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= Subkey
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Subkey is a commandline utility included with Substrate that generates or restores Substrate keys.
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`subkey` will use the http://wiki.polkadot.network/en/latest/polkadot/learn/cryptography/#keypairs-and-signing[sr25519] cryptography by default. If you need to use the older ed25519 cryptography to generate or restore your key pass the `--ed25519` flag to any of the commands.
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== Usage
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=== Generate a random account
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```bash
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subkey generate
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```
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Will output a mnemonic phrase and give you the seed, public key, and address of a new account. DO NOT SHARE your mnemonic or seed with ANYONE it will give them access to your funds. If someone is making a transfer to you they will only need your **Address**.
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=== Inspecting a key
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You can inspect a given URI (mnemonic, seed, public key, or address) and recover the public key and the address.
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```bash
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subkey inspect <mnemonic,seed,pubkey,address>
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OUTPUT:
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Public key (hex): 0x461edcf1ba99e43f50dec4bdeb3d1a2cf521ad7c3cd0eeee5cd3314e50fd424c
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Address (SS58): 5DeeNqcAcaHDSed2HYnqMDK7JHcvxZ5QUE9EKmjc5snvU6wF
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```
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=== Signing
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`subkey` expects a message to come in on STDIN, one way to sign a message would look like this:
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```bash
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echo <msg> | subkey sign <seed,mnemonic>
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OUTPUT:
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a69da4a6ccbf81dbbbfad235fa12cf8528c18012b991ae89214de8d20d29c1280576ced6eb38b7406d1b7e03231df6dd4a5257546ddad13259356e1c3adfb509
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```
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=== Verifying a signature
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```bash
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echo <msg> | subkey verify <sig> <address>
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OUTPUT:
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Signature verifies correctly.
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```
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=== Using the vanity generator
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You can use the included vanity generator to find a seed that provides an address which includes the desired pattern. Be warned, depending on your hardware this may take a while.
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```bash
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subkey vanity 1337
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```
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