tendermint/doc.go

/*
go-crypto is a customized/convenience cryptography package
for supporting Tendermint.

It wraps select functionality of equivalent functions in the
Go standard library, for easy usage with our libraries.

Keys:

All key generation functions return an instance of the PrivKey interface
which implements methods

    AssertIsPrivKeyInner()
    Bytes() []byte
    Sign(msg []byte) Signature
    PubKey() PubKey
    Equals(PrivKey) bool
    Wrap() PrivKey

From the above method we can:
a) Retrieve the public key if needed

    pubKey := key.PubKey()

For example:
    privKey, err := crypto.GenPrivKeyEd25519()
    if err != nil {
	...
    }
    pubKey := privKey.PubKey()
    ...
    // And then you can use the private and public key
    doSomething(privKey, pubKey)


We also provide hashing wrappers around algorithms:

Sha256
    sum := crypto.Sha256([]byte("This is Tendermint"))
    fmt.Printf("%x\n", sum)

Ripemd160
    sum := crypto.Ripemd160([]byte("This is consensus"))
    fmt.Printf("%x\n", sum)
*/
package crypto

// TODO: Add more docs in here