crypto: update {Load,Save}ECDSA comments to mention hex encoding

pull/749/head
Felix Lange 10 years ago
parent da4a0e0555
commit 4907d28967
  1. 5
      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)

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