Simplified Privacy

(For Node Operators) How to Use your Key

How to Sign Your HydraVeil Endpoints

(For Node Operators) How to Use your Key



Overview:

This guide is for node operators and NOT for just regular users. We’ll be discussing how to use the HydraVeil Key Tool.


Step 1. Get the Tool

The tool can be found on our self-host git found here.

It’s a bash script to use id_ed25519 encryption using OpenSSL.


Security

Both id_ed25519 and OpenSSL, are widely used and well-respected in the industry. This tool is merely streamlining the workflow for signing endpoints.


Allow it to Run

So to run a bash script, you’d first need to right click it to allow it to run.

Then just put “./” in front of the file name. So if the file is named “hydraveil-operator”, you’d do:

./hydraveil-operator.sh

It will output the proper use,

Usage: ./hydraveil-operator.sh <action>

Actions:

  initialize
  sign-contract <file>
  sign <endpoint>
  verify <endpoint> <signature>



Step 2. Initialize

So to start off initialize to make the keypair.

./hydraveil-operator.sh initialize

This will output id_ed25519 and id_ed25519.pub. These are the key files, make sure to keep them safe, especially the private key which is the one WITHOUT the .pub.


Step 3. Sign Contract

Next you’d sign the contract. First have the word “sign-contract” then the file name you’re signing. For example to sign a text file named “test.txt”, I’d say,

./hydraveil-operator.sh sign-contract test.txt

This is an example of the type of output, to send back to Simplified Privacy, but obviously your values with differ.

SHA-512 hash of the Contract test.txt:
ed10b0169f793b34ad212bdd2001c363abf92c86b529f99e3a88cb373b9dd6683edc3303f2df692ec246f013a7e60fddf0434c9cc9c3c549ee0d794211f081b5

Operator's Public Key:
ec78a2aac0361100fe6fdcc449d968f087e3e971d585230bccd869b629a0595c

Signature of Contract:
iby/rATlHD1iggNMTbkeSfKs93f754JGByb8bd6WOPZCJLXQVNgEApaNrlvFdlDC1Hudx1gjBrGb/xyPSmzxDA==



Step 4. Setup the Node

Next you’re working with the Simplified Privacy team to setup your node, using our Git.


Step 5. Sign your Endpoint

At the end of your setup, you’ll have the Wireguard Public Key. You’re going to sign this by putting it after the word sign. For example if my Wireguard public key is BLAHBLAHDEMO then,

./hydraveil-operator sign BLAHBLAHDEMO

Then share your output with the team.

For example the output for this fake demo is,

 Signature: GT1F9HfdHR/Hv/Z9QAjFhXSlrkzNocAJqORI/6dH5RWjZ0IyZOubqr3GccjbJsX7
              rYDWHVOgsBOFskI+YPwHDg==

 Provider: ec78a2aac0361100fe6fdcc449d968f087e3e971d585230bccd869b629a0595c
 Endpoint: BLAHBLAHDEMO



Security

Remember to keep these keys safe on a Linux device, and make a backup. (encrypted or offline storage). Do NOT keep or use the keys on Microsoft Windows or Apple devices.


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