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Diffstat (limited to 'src/crypto/ed25519/ed25519.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/crypto/ed25519/ed25519.go | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/crypto/ed25519/ed25519.go b/src/crypto/ed25519/ed25519.go index 32a8d9e86c..1dda9e5e9a 100644 --- a/src/crypto/ed25519/ed25519.go +++ b/src/crypto/ed25519/ed25519.go @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ func (priv PrivateKey) Seed() []byte { return bytes.Clone(priv[:SeedSize]) } -// Sign signs the given message with priv. rand is ignored. +// Sign signs the given message with priv. rand is ignored and can be nil. // // If opts.HashFunc() is [crypto.SHA512], the pre-hashed variant Ed25519ph is used // and message is expected to be a SHA-512 hash, otherwise opts.HashFunc() must @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ func (o *Options) HashFunc() crypto.Hash { return o.Hash } // GenerateKey generates a public/private key pair using entropy from rand. // If rand is nil, [crypto/rand.Reader] will be used. +// +// The output of this function is deterministic, and equivalent to reading +// [SeedSize] bytes from rand, and passing them to [NewKeyFromSeed]. func GenerateKey(rand io.Reader) (PublicKey, PrivateKey, error) { if rand == nil { rand = cryptorand.Reader |