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Account Hash

The account-hash is a 32-byte hash of the public key and it represents the address of the user account. It is the identifier of the account inside a smart contract.

Prerequisites​

You must ensure the following prerequisites are met, before you can generate an account hash:

  1. Set up your machine as per the prerequisites
  2. Get a public key hex
  3. Use the Casper command-line client

Generating Account Hash​

To generate an account-hash use the following command:

casper-client account-address --public-key <PUBLIC KEY HEX CODE>

Sample Output

account-hash-a2c2a41c282452195e5dd267272d12ed3e991467a5f881aab96306bac1cec3e8

In the above output, a2c2a41c282452195e5dd267272d12ed3e991467a5f881aab96306bac1cec3e8 is the account hash and the prefix account-hash- is used to make it a tight key.