nacl

Documentation

Overview

Package nacl implements encryption and decryption using anonymous sealed boxes, depending on golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/box.

Index

• Constants
• Variables
• func DecodePrivate(hexkey string) (crypto.Cipher, error)
• func DecodePublic(hexkey string) (crypto.PublicKey, error)
• func Generate(randReader io.Reader) (crypto.Cipher, error)

Constants

const KeyLength = 32

Variables

var Anonymous crypto.Cipher = (*privateKey)(nil)

Anonymous is a convenience to encrypt anonymous sealed boxes for an explicit recipient public key, without having a private key at all.

Functions

func DecodePrivate

func DecodePrivate(hexkey string) (crypto.Cipher, error)

DecodePrivate decodes a private key from a hexadecimal string.

Since this package supports encryption and decryption, we return a crypto.Cipher instead of just a crypto.PrivateKey.

func DecodePublic

func DecodePublic(hexkey string) (crypto.PublicKey, error)

DecodePublic decodes a public key from a hexadecimal string.

func Generate

func Generate(randReader io.Reader) (crypto.Cipher, error)

Generate creates a new random private key. If randReader is nil, crypto/rand.Reader is used.

Since this package supports encryption and decryption, we return a crypto.Cipher instead of just a crypto.PrivateKey.