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crypto

The crypto package currently has an interface for Timelock Puzzles, and an implementation of both the RCW96 timelock puzzle and a simple hash-based timelock puzzle. In the case of the hash-based timelock puzzle, it takes just as long to create the puzzle (if you are encrypting information with the result) as it does to solve it. With RCW96, this is not the case. It's supposed to be similar to interact with as the golang built-in crypto library.

Documentation

Index

• type Puzzle
• type Timelock

Types

type Puzzle

type Puzzle interface {
	// Solve solves the puzzle and returns the answer, or fails
	Solve() (answer []byte, err error)
	// Serialize turns the puzzle into something that's able to be sent over the wire
	Serialize() (raw []byte, err error)
}

Puzzle is what can actually be solved. It should return the same answer that was the result of SetupTimelockPuzzle.

type Timelock

type Timelock interface {
	// SetupTimelockPuzzle sends key k to the future in time t, returning a puzzle and an answer, or fails
	SetupTimelockPuzzle(t uint64) (puzzle Puzzle, answer []byte, err error)
}

Timelock is an interface that all timelock implementations should conform to.