Trying to Connect with a Hacker Online

[Karl]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 6:46 PM Stefan Claas <sac at 300baud.de> wrote:

> Stefan Claas wrote:
>
> > Karl wrote:
> >
> > > I embarrassingly haven't sustained much understanding of golang ... I
> > > wanted to convert my box keys to signify-nacl keys but it seems the
> > > formats are different; my own signature doesn't verify when I just
> > > copy the bytes.
> >
> > NaCl sign secret keys are 64 bytes, while NaCl box secret keys are 32
> bytes.
>
> Since you are a Programmer, maybe this helps:
>
> <
> https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/54353/why-are-nacl-secret-keys-64-bytes-for-signing-but-32-bytes-for-box
> >
>

Quote:
An Ed25519 private key consists of a 32 byte seed (from which you can
cheaply derive the 32 byte private scalar and the 32 byte hash prefix) and
the 32 byte public key.

This is actually what I tried, but I think I need to look at the
implementations to make it work.  I can likely figure the golang out if I
need to, or probably there's a more direct approach to the whole shebang.
Maybe I'll come up with a high latency message to send to your offline
system =)

-sent from my closed source toosmartphone, which is dangerously rotting the
flesh of my hands


> Regards
> Stefan
>
> --
> NaClbox: cc5c5f846c661343745772156a7751a5eb34d3e83d84b7d6884e507e105fd675
>   The computer helps us to solve problems, we did not have without him.
>
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