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keyfile operations for ssb
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keys structure [question] #42

Closed nichoth closed 5 years ago

nichoth commented 6 years ago

Hello. Is the documentation out of date? It looks like it is missing the field curve.

//usually, load keys like this
var keys = ssbkeys.loadOrCreateSync(filename)
/* => {
  id: String,
  public: String,
  private: String
}*/

but there is also curve: 'ed25519'

Also, what is the id field? a random string to identify this key pair?

evbogue commented 6 years ago

@nichoth id is the same as public, but with an @ sign in front of it. It's always seemed a little redundant to me. Perhaps we could deprecate id someday and instead have ssbkey.id return public with a prepended @ sign?

And yes, curve is specified in secret files.

dominictarr commented 6 years ago

id is the ssb id, which has the @ and curve type combined. We currently only have one supported signature algorithm, so the curve field isn't very useful, but will be when we need to support another.

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