lighthouse/account_manager
Pawan Dhananjay 042e80570c
Improve tokio task execution (#1181)
* Add logging on shutdown

* Replace tokio::spawn with handle.spawn

* Upgrade tokio

* Add a task executor

* Beacon chain tasks use task executor

* Validator client tasks use task executor

* Rename runtime_handle to executor

* Add duration histograms; minor fixes

* Cleanup

* Fix logs

* Fix tests

* Remove random file

* Get enr dependency instead of libp2p

* Address some review comments

* Libp2p takes a TaskExecutor

* Ugly fix libp2p tests

* Move TaskExecutor to own file

* Upgrade Dockerfile rust version

* Minor fixes

* Revert "Ugly fix libp2p tests"

This reverts commit 58d4bb690f52de28d893943b7504d2d0c6621429.

* Pretty fix libp2p tests

* Add spawn_without_exit; change Counter to Gauge

* Tidy

* Move log from RuntimeContext to TaskExecutor

* Fix errors

* Replace histogram with int_gauge for async tasks

* Fix todo

* Fix memory leak in test by exiting all spawned tasks at the end
2020-06-04 21:48:05 +10:00
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src Improve tokio task execution (#1181) 2020-06-04 21:48:05 +10:00
Cargo.toml Improve tokio task execution (#1181) 2020-06-04 21:48:05 +10:00
README.md Added deterministic keypair generation. 2019-04-08 15:02:11 +10:00

Lighthouse Account Manager

The account manager (AM) is a stand-alone binary which allows users to generate and manage the cryptographic keys necessary to interact with Ethereum Serenity.

Roles

The AM is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Generation of cryptographic key pairs
    • Must acquire sufficient entropy to ensure keys are generated securely (TBD)
  • Secure storage of private keys
    • Keys must be encrypted while at rest on the disk (TBD)
    • The format is compatible with the validator client
  • Produces messages and transactions necessary to initiate staking on Ethereum 1.x (TPD)

Implementation

The AM is not a service, and does not run continuously, nor does it interact with any running services. It is intended to be executed separately from other Lighthouse binaries and produce files which can be consumed by them.&

Usage

Simply run ./account_manager generate to generate a new random private key, which will be automatically saved to the correct directory.

If you prefer to use our "deterministic" keys for testing purposes, simply run ./accounts_manager generate_deterministic -i <index>, where index is the validator index for the key. This will reliably produce the same key each time and save it to the directory.