Hello, thanks for the response!
Perhaps my original question would be better to include a more robust use
case: https://gist.github.com/jas-/9330405
Attempting to specify privKey.toString('hex') would not work in that use
case due to crypto.DiffieHellman.generateKeys() only exporting binary, hex
or base64 private key formats.
On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:01:56 AM UTC-7, Fedor Indutny wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> It is just a convenience thing, the key itself is usually PEM encoded and
> you could pass it as a string or Buffer, without any additional encoding
> set.
>
> However, if you do following thing:
>
> var key = fs.readFileSync('key.pem').toString('hex');
> s.sign(key, 'hex');
>
> The additional encoding param could suddenly become useful ;)
>
> So, answering your question - it is a design decision.
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:56 PM, jas <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know if the privKey arg when using
> > crypto.createSign().update(ct).sign(privKey, encoding) can be a buffer,
> hex
> > encoding string etc?
> >
> > It seems (according to the docs & source) that it requires an ascii PEM
> > (L#2974) formatted private key, which eliminates the use of the
> > crypto.DiffieHellman.generateKeys() private key as its only output
> options
> > are binary, hex or base64.
> >
> > Is this a design decision?
> >
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