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Export Key

Users can at any time request to "export" their keys into a private key (EOA) and stop using an MPC wallet.

warning

Once the private key is exported, the guarantees of MPC are lost.

info

Since this operation is a sensitive operations, we don't expose it directly in the SDK. Instead we provide an endpoint in the cloud node /v3/ecdsa/export or /v3/eddsa/export that can be used to get the encrypted share of the cloud node. We provide a method in the client SDK to combine the client and server shares to recover the full private key.

It's the responsibility of the company using the SDK to expose this endpoint to the user in a secure way.

For e.g:

  • When the user requests to export the private key. The backend can request additional authentication from the user (e.g: 2FA) before exporting the private key.
  • Once the user is authenticated, the backend can get the encrypted share from the cloud node and pass it to the user.
  • The user can decrypt the share and recover the full private key using duoSession.export().

Get the encrypted share of the cloud node by making a POST request to the /v3/ecdsa/export or /v3/eddsa/export endpoint.

warning

The /v3/ecdsa/export or /v3/eddsa/export endpoint is not exposed directly in the SDK. Here for the sake of simplicity, we will use the getExportData method to make the request from the client. Do NOT expose this endpoint to the user directly in a production application.

Step 1 : Create Session​

Step 2 : Generate Encryption key-pair​

  • Generate Encryption/Decryption key-pair to export private-key encrypted with generated key-pair by calling SilentShard.ECDSA.generateEncryptionDecryptionKeyPair() or SilentShard.EdDSA.generateEncryptionDecryptionKeyPair() which returns Result of Success with Tuple of (Data,Data) (private-public) or Failure with error.

    // generate the keyshare encryption key-pair
    //ECDSA
    let hostPrivateKeyPublicKeyPair = await SilentShard.ECDSA.generateEncryptionDecryptionKeyPair()
    // or EdDSA
    let hostPrivateKeyPublicKeyPair = await SilentShard.EdDSA.generateEncryptionDecryptionKeyPair()

    switch hostPrivateKeyPublicKeyPair {
    case .success(let privateKeyPublicKeyPair):
        do {
            // do something with hostPrivateKeyPublicKeyPair bytes-bytes

            // private-key
            Swift.print(privateKeyPublicKeyPair.0)
            // public-key
            Swift.print(privateKeyPublicKeyPair.1)
        }
    case .failure(let error):
        do {
            // show error to user or abort process
            Swift.print(error)
            return nil
        }
    }

Step 3 : Perform network request to the server​

  1. key_id : You can get keyid bytes by calling SilentShard.ECDSA.getKeyshareKeyId() or SilentShard.EdDSA.getKeyshareKeyId() :

    let keyshareKeyIdResult = await SilentShard.ECDSA.getKeyshareKeyId(keyshare)
    //or
    let keyshareKeyIdResult = await SilentShard.EdDSA.getKeyshareKeyId(keyshare)

  2. public_key : second element from the pair generated in step 2

Step 4 : Collect all the parameters​

We need four things to perform export. Now, let's collect them all.

  1. hostKeyshare: Data : Keyshare to export.
  2. otherEncryptedKeyshare: Data : We parse the response from the network request we do in step 3 and get the server's encrypted keyshare(base64 encoded) convert it to Data 
    let encryptedServerKeyshare = Data(
            hex: exportRequestResponse!.encServerShare
        )
  3. hostEncryptionKey: Data : first element from the pair generated in step 2
  4. otherDecryptionKey: Data : We parse the response from the network request we do in step 3 and get the server's public key to decrypt the server's encrypted keyshare and then convert it to Data 
    let serverKeyshareDecryptionPublicKey = Data(hex: exportRequestResponse!.serverPublicKey)

Step 5 : Perform Export​

  • Call duoSession.export() with all the required params (as explained above and in the following example) which returns Result of Success with Keyshare bytes as Data or Failure with error.

Example​

Example.swift
private func performKeyExport(keyshare: Data, duoSession: DuoSession) async -> Data?
    {
        // MARK: generate the keyshare encryption key-pair
        let encryptionKeyPairResult = await SilentShard.ECDSA.generateEncryptionDecryptionKeyPair()
        let encryptionKeyPair : (Data,Data)
    
        switch encryptionKeyPairResult {
            case .success(let encryptionKeyPairSuccess):
            do {
                // do something with encryptionKeyPair bytes-bytes
                encryptionKeyPair = encryptionKeyPairSuccess
    
                // private-key
                Swift.print(encryptionKeyPair.0)
                // public-key
                Swift.print(encryptionKeyPair.1)
            }
            case .failure(let error):
            do {
                // show error to user or abort process
                Swift.print(error)
                return nil
            }
        }
    
        // MARK: get key-id for keyshare to export
        let keyshareKeyIdResult = await SilentShard.ECDSA.getKeyshareKeyId(keyshare)
        let keyshareKeyId : Data

        switch keyshareKeyIdResult {
            case .success(let keyshareKeyIdSuccess):
            do {
                // do something with key-id string
                keyshareKeyId = keyshareKeyIdSuccess
            }
            case .failure(let error):
            do {
                // show error to user or abort process
                Swift.print(error)
                return nil
            }
        }
    
        // MARK: make export network request : get the server's encrypted keyshare
        let exportRequestResponse = try? await getExportData(
            url: "http://\(CLOUD_NODE_URI):\(PORT)/v3/ecdsa/export",
        keyId: keyshareKeyId.toHexString(),
        publicKey: encryptionKeyPair.1
        )
    
        // MARK: perform keyshare export will all the params we collected so far
        let exportResult = await duoSession.export(
            hostKeyshare: keyshare,
            otherEncryptedKeyshare: Data(
            hex: exportRequestResponse!.encServerShare
        ),
        hostEncryptionKey: encryptionKeyPair.0,
        otherDecryptionKey: Data(hex: exportRequestResponse!.serverPublicKey))
    
        // returns nil if operation fails
        switch exportResult {
            case .success(let dataBytes):
            do {
                // do something with exported (encrypted) keyshare bytes
                Swift.print(dataBytes)
                return dataBytes
            }
            case .failure(let error):
            do {
                // show error to user or abort process
                Swift.print(error)
                return nil
            }
        }
    }

/*
Network request to get the server's encrypted keyshare.*/
    private func getExportData(url: String, keyId: String, publicKey: Data)
        async throws -> ExportResponse
    {
        let request = ExportRequest(
            keyId: keyId,
            clientEncPubkey: publicKey.toHexString()
        )
        let encoder = JSONEncoder()
        encoder.keyEncodingStrategy = .convertToSnakeCase
        let requestData = try encoder.encode(request)
        let response = try await sendPostRequest(
            url: URL(string: url)!,
            body: requestData
        )
        let decoder = JSONDecoder()
        decoder.keyDecodingStrategy = .convertFromSnakeCase
        return try decoder.decode(ExportResponse.self, from: response)
    }

/*
Network request params*/
    struct ExportRequest: Codable {
        let keyId: String
        let clientEncPubkey: String
    }

/*
Network response*/
    struct ExportResponse: Codable {
        let keyId: String
        let serverPublicKey: String
        let encServerShare: String
    }

/*
Perform network request to the server*/
private func sendPostRequest(url: URL, body: Data) async throws -> Data 
    {
        var request = URLRequest(url: url)
        request.httpMethod = "POST"
        request.setValue("application/json", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
        request.httpBody = body
        let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
        return data
    }

extension Data {
    init?(hex: String) {
        let hex = hex.dropFirst(hex.hasPrefix("0x") ? 2 : 0)

        guard hex.count % 2 == 0 else { return nil }

        self.init(capacity: hex.count / 2)

        var index = hex.startIndex
        while index < hex.endIndex {
            let nextIndex = hex.index(index, offsetBy: 2)
            guard let byte = UInt8(hex[index..<nextIndex], radix: 16) else {
                return nil
            }
            self.append(byte)
            index = nextIndex
        }
    }

    func hexString() -> String {
        return self.map { String(format: "%02x", $0) }.joined()
    }
}
  • hostKeyshare: The client's share of the MPC wallet.
  • hostEncryptionKey: The client's encryption private key.
  • otherDecryptionKey: The server's encryption public key. (This is included in the response from the /v3/ecdsa/export or /v3/eddsa/export endpoint)
  • otherEncryptedKeyshare: The encrypted server share. (This is included in the response from the /v3/ecdsa/export or /v3/eddsa/export endpoint)