How to derive Cardano addresses from public keys?

Question

I've been searching for the way to derive cardano addresses from public keys since Daedalus added the ability to export my public key. I haven't found any resources saying how to do it programmatically. Can someone explain the steps needed to do so?

I'm aware of the derivation path but what would be the steps before and after that?

Answer 1

Not for daedalus wallet, but you check this if it's helpful https://docs.cardano.org/projects/cardano-serialization-lib/en/latest/getting-started/generating-keys.html

Answer 2

You can use any programming language, providing JSON decoding, to derive Cardano addresses from public keys. It could be PHP, Java, Python, Swift, C#, Kotlin or any other language. You could use a cardano-cli utility the same way it was used for building the Daedalus. A derivation path for Shelley era wallet is the following:

m / 1852H / 1815H / 0H / 0 / 0

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