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---
id: version-1.9.8-key-manager
title: Key Manager
original_id: key-manager
---
### Key Manager
The key manager module's goal is to encapsulate all private key interactions with the [wallet](../wallet/wallet.md) project.
As of this writing, there is only one type of `KeyManager` - [`BIP39KeyManager`](/api/org/bitcoins/keymanager/bip39/BIP39KeyManager).
The [`BIP39KeyManager`](/api/org/bitcoins/keymanager/bip39/BIP39KeyManager) stores a [`MnemonicCode`](/api/org/bitcoins/core/crypto/MnemonicCode) on disk which can be decrypted and used as a hot wallet.
Over the long run, we want to make it so that the wallet project needs to communicate with the key-manager to access private keys.
This means that ALL SIGNING should be done inside of the key-manager, and private keys should not leave the key manager.
This makes it easier to reason about the security characteristics of our private keys, and a way to provide a uniform interface for alternative key storage systems (hsm, cloud based key storage, etc) to be plugged into the bitcoin-s library.
#### Creating a key manager
The first thing you need create a key manager is some entropy.
A popular way for bitcoin wallet's to represent entropy is [BIP39](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki) which you [can use in bitcoin-s](/api/org/bitcoins/core/crypto/BIP39Seed)
You can generate a `MnemonicCode` in bitcoin-s with the following code
```scala
import org.bitcoins.core.crypto._
//get 256 bits of random entropy
val entropy = MnemonicCode.getEntropy256Bits
// entropy: scodec.bits.BitVector = BitVector(256 bits, 0x15acbeb8af0bea24f4eb1de1f17e0fbc063a14b64de00d4fb0775593865ce26d)
val mnemonic = MnemonicCode.fromEntropy(entropy)
// mnemonic: MnemonicCode = Masked(MnemonicCodeImpl)
//you can print that mnemonic seed with this
println(mnemonic.words)
// Vector(between, grass, purchase, fun, salt, bar, squirrel, glove, tiger, message, loop, job, glove, apart, summer, rose, ask, laugh, build, private, debris, common, meadow, relief)
```
Now that we have a `MnemonicCode` that was securely generated, we need to now create `KeyManagerParams` which tells us how to generate
generate specific kinds of addresses for wallets.
`KeyManagerParams` takes 3 parameters:
1. `seedPath` there is where we store the `MnemonicCode` on your file system
2. [`purpose`](/api/org/bitcoins/core/hd/HDPurpose) which represents what type of utxo this `KeyManager` is associated with. The specification for this is in [BIP43](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0043.mediawiki)
3. [`network`](/api/org/bitcoins/core/config/NetworkParameters) what cryptocurrency network this key manager is associated with
This controls how the root key is defined. The combination of `purpose` and `network` determine how the root `ExtKey` is serialized. For more information on how this works please see [hd-keys](../core/hd-keys.md)
Now we can construct a native segwit key manager for the regtest network!
```scala
//this will create a temp directory with the prefix 'key-manager-example` that will
//have a file in it called "encrypted-bitcoin-s-seed.json"
val seedPath = Files.createTempDirectory("key-manager-example").resolve(WalletStorage.ENCRYPTED_SEED_FILE_NAME)
// seedPath: Path = /tmp/key-manager-example18108531960447296408/encrypted-bitcoin-s-seed.json
//let's create a native segwit key manager
val purpose = HDPurposes.SegWit
// purpose: HDPurpose = m/84'
//let's choose regtest as our network
val network = RegTest
// network: RegTest.type = RegTest
val kmParams = KeyManagerParams(seedPath, purpose, network)
// kmParams: KeyManagerParams = KeyManagerParams(/tmp/key-manager-example18108531960447296408/encrypted-bitcoin-s-seed.json,m/84',RegTest)
val aesPasswordOpt = Some(AesPassword.fromString("password"))
// aesPasswordOpt: Some[AesPassword] = Some(Masked(AesPassword))
val km = BIP39KeyManager.initializeWithMnemonic(aesPasswordOpt, mnemonic, None, kmParams)
// km: Either[KeyManagerInitializeError, BIP39KeyManager] = Right(org.bitcoins.keymanager.bip39.BIP39KeyManager@3d6ad96a)
val rootXPub = km.right.get.getRootXPub
// rootXPub: ExtPublicKey = vpub5SLqN2bLY4WeYMKogZn5Jo4dbbZH65XGBjudJDtMSVmn5q838fy7TVok1PAUcZC19kQaEvyRADn2KDMYaB1KC7PRaWxKc9Bw4Lc1YqYMLfQ
println(rootXPub)
// vpub5SLqN2bLY4WeYMKogZn5Jo4dbbZH65XGBjudJDtMSVmn5q838fy7TVok1PAUcZC19kQaEvyRADn2KDMYaB1KC7PRaWxKc9Bw4Lc1YqYMLfQ
```
Which should print something that looks like this
`vpub5SLqN2bLY4WeXxMqwJHJFBEwxSscGB2uDUnsTS3edVjZEwTrQDFDNqoR2xLqARQPabGaXsHSTenTRcqm2EnB9MpuC4vSk3LqSgNmGGZtuq7`
which is a native segwit `ExtPubKey` for the regtest network!
You can always change the `network` or `purpose` to support different things. You do _not_ need to initialize the key manager
again after initializing it once. You can use the same `mnemonic` for different networks, which you control `KeyManagerParams`.
```scala
//let's create a nested segwit key manager for mainnet
val mainnetKmParams = KeyManagerParams(seedPath, HDPurposes.SegWit, MainNet)
// mainnetKmParams: KeyManagerParams = KeyManagerParams(/tmp/key-manager-example18108531960447296408/encrypted-bitcoin-s-seed.json,m/84',MainNet)
//we do not need to all `initializeWithMnemonic()` again as we have saved the seed to dis
val mainnetKeyManager = BIP39KeyManager.fromMnemonic(mnemonic, mainnetKmParams, None, Instant.now, false)
// mainnetKeyManager: BIP39KeyManager = org.bitcoins.keymanager.bip39.BIP39KeyManager@5e633ea0
val mainnetXpub = mainnetKeyManager.getRootXPub
// mainnetXpub: ExtPublicKey = zpub6jftahH18ngZwY6H1zva99SeHU94rZVFrBzWRoTtxXHJJENx9JdMwkSJ6CzpcBognJsoEqMezsCDrMooSxfNP47q3sk1wnTt9Erb7Cp46V1
println(mainnetXpub)
// zpub6jftahH18ngZwY6H1zva99SeHU94rZVFrBzWRoTtxXHJJENx9JdMwkSJ6CzpcBognJsoEqMezsCDrMooSxfNP47q3sk1wnTt9Erb7Cp46V1
```
Which gives us something that looks like this
`zpub6jftahH18ngZw98KGjRo5XcxeKTQ2eztsvskb1dC9XF5TLimQquTs6Ry7nBBA425D9joXmfgJJCexmJ1u2SELJZJfRi95gcnXadLpZzYb5c`
which is a p2sh wrapped segwit `ExtPubKey` for the bitcoin main network!
#### Creating a key manager from existing mnemonic
To create a `KeyManager` from existing mnemonic you need to specify the `seedPath` and then construct the `KeyManagerParams` that you would like.
Finally you call `KeyManager.fromParams()` that reads the mnemonic from disk and create's the key manager