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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/crypto.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/crypto.go | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/crypto.go b/crypto/crypto.go index 9865c87c4..89423e0c4 100644 --- a/crypto/crypto.go +++ b/crypto/crypto.go @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ func HexToECDSA(hexkey string) (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) { } // LoadECDSA loads a secp256k1 private key from the given file. +// The key data is expected to be hex-encoded. func LoadECDSA(file string) (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) { buf := make([]byte, 64) fd, err := os.Open(file) @@ -139,8 +140,8 @@ func LoadECDSA(file string) (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) { return ToECDSA(key), nil } -// SaveECDSA saves a secp256k1 private key to the given file with restrictive -// permissions +// SaveECDSA saves a secp256k1 private key to the given file with +// restrictive permissions. The key data is saved hex-encoded. func SaveECDSA(file string, key *ecdsa.PrivateKey) error { k := hex.EncodeToString(FromECDSA(key)) return ioutil.WriteFile(file, []byte(k), 0600) |