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Markdown
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Markdown
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# Lighthouse Accounts Manager
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The accounts manager (AM) is a stand-alone binary which allows
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users to generate and manage the cryptographic keys necessary to
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interact with Ethereum Serenity.
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## Roles
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The AM is responsible for the following tasks:
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- Generation of cryptographic key pairs
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- Must acquire sufficient entropy to ensure keys are generated securely (TBD)
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- Secure storage of private keys
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- Keys must be encrypted while at rest on the disk (TBD)
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- The format is compatible with the validator client
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- Produces messages and transactions necessary to initiate
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staking on Ethereum 1.x (TPD)
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## Implementation
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The AM is not a service, and does not run continuously, nor does it
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interact with any running services.
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It is intended to be executed separately from other Lighthouse binaries
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and produce files which can be consumed by them.
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