Re: Commissioning support in keytool-cli for did:key/secp keys?

FWIW, I have the NIST curves in this PR:
https://github.com/ceramicnetwork/js-ceramic/pull/1884 . I booked ETH
Denver this year: Feb 11- 20th, so I will be focusing on that for the time
being. If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, maybe I
can help.

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:54 PM Christopher Allen <
ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:

> Blockchain Commons has an open-source project keytool-cli  (
> https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/keytool-cli) written in C/C++ that
> given a random seed (for instance,
> https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/seedtool-cli) and an HD path will
> derive a variety of hd-keys, base58 addresses, etc. (full list of output
> formats:
> https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/keytool-cli/blob/master/MANUAL.md#formats
> ).
>
> For instance:
>
> ```
> keytool \
>   --seed 1eb5338edac6fae54cbb172091ae6c1a \
>   master-key \
>   master-key-base58
> ```
>
> We would like to flat-rate commission a PR to this project to offer as
> output the public key formats used by did:key for secp-based keys, along
> with tests, under our open software developer contract
> https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Open-Development/tree/master/open-software-developer-contract,
> with the final project licensed BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent License.
>
> If someone is interested in tackling this relatively simple and
> well-scoped project, let me know.
>
> -- Christopher Allen
>
> P.S. Future work could include adding schnorr signature support for
> did:key (a much harder project in C/C++). Currently keytool-cli can only
> sign bitcoin PSBTs.
>
>