Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another
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- External ID
- 48995935
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- HN
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- Product
- Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 21, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3972520908004779
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Everything increasingly runs on Ed25519 keypairs, but Ed25519 public keys can be encoded as text in dozens of surface-incompatible different ways: hexadecimal, Base64 (OpenSSH), Base32z (iroh, pkdns), Base58 (NEAR), and Multibase (IPFS, libp2p), just for starters.Edky is a command-line tool and Rust library that converts between these Ed25519 surface encodings, aiding use of the same underlying keypair across e.g. an iroh endpoint, a libp2p peer, or a NEAR Protocol account. (Surprisingly, a conversion utility like this didn't yet exist!) $ cargo binstall -y edky $ edky convert -f iroh -t libp2p 47pjoycnsrfmxikm95jh13y88e8qnhzu5kungjpxyepgt7a8krpy z6MktwupdmLXVVqTzCw4i46r4uGyosGXRnR3XjN4Zq7oMMsw $ edky convert -f libp2p -t iroh z6MktwupdmLXVVqTzCw4i46r4uGyosGXRnR3XjN4Zq7oMMsw 47pjoycnsrfmxikm95jh13y88e8qnhzu5kungjpxyepgt7a8krpy $ edky convert -f near -t hex ed25519:FVen3X669xLzsi6N2V91DoiyzHzg1uAgqiT8jZ9nS96Z d75a980182b10ab7d54bfed3c964073a0ee172f3daa62325af021a68f707511a $ edky convert -f hex -t near d75a980182b10ab7d54bfed3c964073a0ee172f3daa62325af021a68f707511a ed25519:FVen3X669xLzsi6N2V91DoiyzHzg1uAgqiT8jZ9nS96Z
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cli to convert ed25519 key encodings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a focused CLI utility that parses public key byte formats and re-encodes them across standard encodings like hex, base58, base64, and multibase using existing libraries.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Asfaload
Concerns raised: OpenSSH encoding is most complicated to implement, Encoding/interoperability challenges with external systems
Feature requests: Support for reading SSH keys in standard formats, Better documentation on encoding choices for different use cases
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