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Difficult-to-work-with key formatting #93

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arnetheduck opened this issue Feb 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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Difficult-to-work-with key formatting #93

arnetheduck opened this issue Feb 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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Description

When formatting the public key, status desktop chooses to use what looks like base64 (zQ...) - the accepted standard for formatting Ethereum keys using standard derivation however is hex (0x04...) - this breaks interoperability with virtually all tooling out there and introduces unnecessary friction between Status and the community around it.

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Expected behavior

Use hex when displaying keys - since the keys are "mostly hidden" anyway, it doesn't really matter what gibberish is displayed as long as the gibberish matches across different tools in the wider ecosystem.

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  • Status desktop version: 0.9.0
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caybro commented Feb 22, 2023

CC @John-44

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@arnetheduck the rationale: status-im/status-go#1937

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