This commit adds comments about the specific crypto key types, moves the
selectCryptoKey function before the Encrypt/Decrypt functions that call it
to be more consistent with the rest of the code base, and slightly
modifies the verbiage of the comment.
The crypto key type unsed in the manager is not needed outside of the
package. Also, rather than having the newCryptoKey func return the
specific cryptoKey type, make it return the EncryptorDecryptor interface.
This will allow it to be overridden with another type that implements the
interface from the tests.
Useful to test error conditions.
Also provide a new function that wraps snacl.GenerateCryptoKey(),
defined as a variable so that it can be replaced in tests.
This commit implements a new secure, scalable, hierarchical deterministic
wallet address manager package.
The following is an overview of features:
- BIP0032 hierarchical deterministic keys
- BIP0043/BIP0044 multi-account hierarchy
- Strong focus on security:
- Fully encrypted database including public information such as
addresses as well as private information such as private keys and
scripts needed to redeem pay-to-script-hash transactions
- Hardened against memory scraping through the use of actively clearing
private material from memory when locked
- Different crypto keys used for public, private, and script data
- Ability for different passphrases for public and private data
- Scrypt-based key derivation
- NaCl-based secretbox cryptography (XSalsa20 and Poly1305)
- Multi-tier scalable key design to allow instant password changes
regardless of the number of addresses stored
- Import WIF keys
- Import pay-to-script-hash scripts for things such as multi-signature
transactions
- Ability to export a watching-only version which does not contain any
private key material
- Programmatically detectable errors, including encapsulation of errors
from packages it relies on
- Address synchronization capabilities
This commit only provides the implementation package. It does not
include integration into to the existing wallet code base or conversion of
existing addresses. That functionality will be provided by future
commits.
