The privkey.Generate method here was a custom-made method for deriving
a private key from another private key. This function is currently
not used anywhere in our codebase, and has not been reviewed enough
that it would be secure to use. This removes that method. We should
adopt the official ed25519 HD derivation once that has been standardized,
in order to fulfill this need.
closes#2000
This commit updates the godocs for the package, and adds an optimization
to the privkey.Pubkey() method.
The optimization is that in golang, the private key (due to interface
compatibility reasons) has a copy of the public key stored inside of it.
Therefore if this copy has already been computed, there is no need to
recompute it.
Currently the top level directory contains basically all of the code
for the crypto package. This PR moves the crypto code into submodules
in a similar manner to what `golang/x/crypto` does. This improves code
organization.
Ref discussion: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/1966Closes#1956
Dev Ojha
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