path: root/cmd/ethkey/utils.go

// Copyright 2017 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of go-ethereum.
//
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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
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// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
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// along with go-ethereum. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "strings"

    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/utils"
    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/console"
    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto"
    "gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1"
)

// promptPassphrase prompts the user for a passphrase.  Set confirmation to true
// to require the user to confirm the passphrase.
func promptPassphrase(confirmation bool) string {
    passphrase, err := console.Stdin.PromptPassword("Passphrase: ")
    if err != nil {
        utils.Fatalf("Failed to read passphrase: %v", err)
    }

    if confirmation {
        confirm, err := console.Stdin.PromptPassword("Repeat passphrase: ")
        if err != nil {
            utils.Fatalf("Failed to read passphrase confirmation: %v", err)
        }
        if passphrase != confirm {
            utils.Fatalf("Passphrases do not match")
        }
    }

    return passphrase
}

// getPassphrase obtains a passphrase given by the user.  It first checks the
// --passfile command line flag and ultimately prompts the user for a
// passphrase.
func getPassphrase(ctx *cli.Context) string {
    // Look for the --passwordfile flag.
    passphraseFile := ctx.String(passphraseFlag.Name)
    if passphraseFile != "" {
        content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(passphraseFile)
        if err != nil {
            utils.Fatalf("Failed to read passphrase file '%s': %v",
                passphraseFile, err)
        }
        return strings.TrimRight(string(content), "\r\n")
    }

    // Otherwise prompt the user for the passphrase.
    return promptPassphrase(false)
}

// signHash is a helper function that calculates a hash for the given message
// that can be safely used to calculate a signature from.
//
// The hash is calulcated as
//   keccak256("\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n"${message length}${message}).
//
// This gives context to the signed message and prevents signing of transactions.
func signHash(data []byte) []byte {
    msg := fmt.Sprintf("\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n%d%s", len(data), data)
    return crypto.Keccak256([]byte(msg))
}

// mustPrintJSON prints the JSON encoding of the given object and
// exits the program with an error message when the marshaling fails.
func mustPrintJSON(jsonObject interface{}) {
    str, err := json.MarshalIndent(jsonObject, "", "  ")
    if err != nil {
        utils.Fatalf("Failed to marshal JSON object: %v", err)
    }
    fmt.Println(string(str))
}