btceclegacy

Documentation

Index

• Variables
• func Decrypt(priv *btcec.PrivateKey, in []byte) ([]byte, error)
• func Encrypt(pubkey *btcec.PublicKey, in []byte) ([]byte, error)

Variables

var (
	// ErrInvalidMAC occurs when Message Authentication Check (MAC) fails
	// during decryption. This happens because of either invalid private key or
	// corrupt ciphertext.
	ErrInvalidMAC = errors.New("invalid mac hash")
)

Functions

func Decrypt

func Decrypt(priv *btcec.PrivateKey, in []byte) ([]byte, error)

Decrypt decrypts data that was encrypted using the Encrypt function.

func Encrypt

func Encrypt(pubkey *btcec.PublicKey, in []byte) ([]byte, error)

Encrypt encrypts data for the target public key using AES-256-CBC. It also generates a private key (the pubkey of which is also in the output). The only supported curve is secp256k1. The `structure' that it encodes everything into is:

struct {
	// Initialization Vector used for AES-256-CBC
	IV [16]byte
	// Public Key: curve(2) + len_of_pubkeyX(2) + pubkeyX +
	// len_of_pubkeyY(2) + pubkeyY (curve = 714)
	PublicKey [70]byte
	// Cipher text
	Data []byte
	// HMAC-SHA-256 Message Authentication Code
	HMAC [32]byte
}

The primary aim is to ensure byte compatibility with Pyelliptic. Also, refer to section 5.8.1 of ANSI X9.63 for rationale on this format.