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Deriving ETH addresses from BIP32 Extended Public Key

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Firstly I wanted to say how helpful your code and page have been for my understanding of BIP’s 32, 39 and 44. Thank you!!

I come across an error when attempting the following:

Select ETH as a coin in the BIP44 tab and generate a mnemonic and seed
Copy the BIP32 Extended Public Key (I leave account and change derivation path members zeroed)
Select ETH as a coin in the BIP32 tab and copy the key into the BIP32 Root Key field

My expectation would be that with a derivation path of m/0 the addresses shown below shall match the one listed in tab BIP44. I might be wrong about this as I am rather new to h.d. wallets.

I saw you suggested this in #94. However I see a thrown exception in the console at keyPair.d.toBuffer

Hope you can reproduce and help. Thanks again!

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slowdownitsfinecommented, Feb 27, 2018

I’ve been using the version deployed to iancoleman.io, just playing with this and trying to learn.

With the derivation path you suggested I’ll see the warning Hardened derivation path is invalid with xpub key.

This is the exception I see when using m/0. I can’t use 0 as there seems to be a check in place for the derivation path to start with m:

screenshot

As a side note I’ve been able to derive the same addresses from the extended public key shown in BIP44 tab with the ethereumjs-wallet/hdkey package.

Anyways, thanks for getting back to me.

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JeffreyLeonardcommented, Dec 29, 2019

Im not sure what this means…

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