gen

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Overview

Package gen contains routines that perform expensive cryptographic operations. These should only be used when absolutely needed by top-level commands, and not in, for example, in test code.

Index

• type CryptoGenerator
• type CryptoSource
  • func NewCryptoSource() *CryptoSource
  • func (g *CryptoSource) GenerateNickname(peerID string) string
  • func (g *CryptoSource) GeneratePrivateKeyAndPeerID() (privKey, peerID string)

Types

type CryptoGenerator

type CryptoGenerator interface {
	// GeneratePrivateKeyAndPeerID returns a base64 encoded private key, and a peerID
	GeneratePrivateKeyAndPeerID() (string, string)
	// GenerateNickname uses a peerID to return a human-friendly nickname
	GenerateNickname(peerID string) string
}

CryptoGenerator is an interface for generating cryptographic info like private keys and peerIDs

type CryptoSource

type CryptoSource struct {
}

CryptoSource is a source of cryptographic info

func NewCryptoSource

func NewCryptoSource() *CryptoSource

NewCryptoSource returns a source of p2p cryptographic info that performs expensive computations like repeated primality testing

func (*CryptoSource) GenerateNickname

func (g *CryptoSource) GenerateNickname(peerID string) string

GenerateNickname returns a nickname using a peerID as a seed

func (*CryptoSource) GeneratePrivateKeyAndPeerID

func (g *CryptoSource) GeneratePrivateKeyAndPeerID() (privKey, peerID string)

GeneratePrivateKeyAndPeerID returns a private key and peerID