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Version: 1.2.1

Class: EcdsaPublicKey

An ECDSA public key, generated by the ECDSA.keygen function. You can get the compressed form (33 bytes) via the serializeCompressed function, or the uncompressed form (65 bytes) via the serializeUncompressed function.

Constructors​

constructor​

• new EcdsaPublicKey(pubkey): EcdsaPublicKey

Parameters​

NameTypeDescription
pubkeystring | Uint8ArrayThe uncompressed public key as a Uint8Array or a hex string. If the Uint8Array is 65 bytes long (SEC1 encoding), the first byte will be ignored.

Returns​

EcdsaPublicKey

A new EcdsaPublicKey object

Properties​

pubkey​

• Private Readonly pubkey: any

LENGTH​

▪ Static Private Readonly LENGTH: any

Methods​

pubKeyAsHex​

▸ pubKeyAsHex(): string

Returns​

string

The public key as a hex string.

serializeCompressed​

▸ serializeCompressed(): Uint8Array

Returns​

Uint8Array

The compressed public key as a Uint8Array of length 33.

serializeUncompressed​

▸ serializeUncompressed(): Uint8Array

Returns​

Uint8Array

The uncompressed public key as a Uint8Array of length 65.