How to use my local private keys in agent-js?

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Hello,

How to generate an identity using my local private keys and use it in agent-js to match the one generated by dfx?

I am trying to use my local private keys to generate my identity to interact with an asset canister.
Link to the code here

I am deploying my local canister with my default local identity and want to call that canister from a nodejs script with the same identity.
I am initializing the agent-js identity like this:

const initIdentity = () => {
  const buffer = readFileSync(process.env.PATH_TO_PRIVATE_KEY!);
  const key = buffer.toString("utf-8");
  const privateKey = createHash("sha256").update(key).digest("base64");

  const secp = Secp256k1KeyIdentity.fromSecretKey(
    Buffer.from(privateKey, "base64"),
  );
  return secp;
};

const identity = initIdentity();
const principal = identity.getPrincipal();
async function upload() {
  const agent = new HttpAgent({
    identity,
    fetch,
    host,
  });
}

But when I run my script to store an asset I get this error

Reject code: 4
Reject text: Caller is not authorized

And when logging the caller principal in my canister it’s indeed a different one than my default principal.

I just noticed that Secp256k1KeyIdentity is not the right algorithm maybe Ed25519KeyIdentity,?
But I don’t know which one dfx is using and I can’t find an example.

References to other projects that trying to do the same

I have tried both but none is working for me so far.

2

Thanks for the detailed post. Same to me (related thread), it’s also one of my blocking issue.

3

Thanks that’s exactly the same topic,
I searched for any related topic before creating this one but nothing showed up.
Your repo is a great source for inspiration :slight_smile:

4

:blush::pray:

Cool to notice in the other post that things are now moving, thanks for updating the subject!

5

This issue have been resolved in another thread