# exportSwarmKey

**Repository Path**: fproject/exportSwarmKey

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: exportSwarmKey
- **Description**: Export the private key from a Swarm json key file
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-06-14
- **Last Updated**: 2021-09-01

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# exportSwarmKey

`exportSwarmKey` is a command-line utility to get the Ethereum keys from your Swarm keystore file. 

We reccomend the usage of `bee-clef`, but if you inadvertedly started `bee` without `bee-clef`, this is as good as it gets.

## Requirements
- [golang](https://golang.org/doc/install)
- [git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)

## HowTo
- Clone this repo and navigate to directory
- run `go run main.go \<sourceDirContainingBeeKeys\> \<password\>`
- Make a backup of your key in a safe place
- Import your keys in a trusted Ethereum wallet (such as Metamask)
- Validate if the address inside your wallet corresponds with the Ethereum address of your Bee node (`localhost:1635/addresses`)

With gratitude to @jmozah <3

## Warning
Never interact with your chequebook directly, but always do so via `bee` APIs. If you would call into functions of your chequebook with your imported key in Metamask, you might screw things up for Bee.