create_key_pair.md

How To Create Key Pair

Goal

Create a public and private key pair for signing transactions.

Before you begin

• Install the currently supported version of cleos.
• Understand the following:
  • What is a public and private key pair.

Steps

To output the key pair to the console

$ cleos create key --to-console

To save the key pair to file

$ cleos create key --file FILE_TO_SAVEKEY