Keys

Key	Description
`EdX25519`	EdX25519 (Ed25519/X25519) signing/encryption key.
`X25519`	X25519 encryption key.

EdX25519

This key can be used for both signing and encryption.

Ed25519 is an elliptic curve signing algorithm using EdDSA and Curve25519. An Ed25519 key can be converted to an X25519 encryption key, and so we call this an EdX25519 key.

The key identifier has the prefix kex.

alice := keys.GenerateEdX25519Key()
fmt.Printf("%s\n", alice.ID())

keys generate -t edx25519
kex1m8nd23chn6jg6c2r0rf5xhlawp2g6qwvkj5zc9val5f76enlfszstqerxm

X25519 is an elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange using Curve25519. X25519 keys only provide public key authenticated encryption.

The key identifier has the prefix kbx.

bob := keys.GenerateX25519Key()
fmt.Printf("%s\n", bob.ID())

keys generate -t x25519
kbx18e99hurn8fly3lls0v53jn9qzduey87l4vya0amjylvpvmfhkdaqtfc2v7

Key identifiers "kid" use the bech32 format.

The bech32 format has a prefix, separator and data part.

The prefix describes the type of key and the data part is the public key bytes encoded as alphanumeric characters excluding "1", "b", "i", and "o".

Key	Prefix	Example
`EdX25519`	`kex`	`kex1ts0qw8fwkvle2f2xsqumetmr9ev5ppx22rl5hnycen68sanjzl7qnta629`
`X25519`	`kbx`	`kbx15z2g8pprdf4a20ea3as03fv54u0eseewlmv0ktu0ezwzakm2x3ss28selu`