Commit 4907d289 authored by Felix Lange's avatar Felix Lange

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

parent da4a0e05
......@@ -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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