Ruby

Ed25519 Key Exchange (Shared Secret)

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Demonstrates how to create an Ed25519 shared secret for use in key exchange.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.83 or greater.

Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# Alice's private key, a:
#     77076d0a7318a57d3c16c17251b26645df4c2f87ebc0992ab177fba51db92c2a
# Alice's public key, X25519(a, 9):
#     8520f0098930a754748b7ddcb43ef75a0dbf3a0d26381af4eba4a98eaa9b4e6a
# Bob's private key, b:
#     5dab087e624a8a4b79e17f8b83800ee66f3bb1292618b6fd1c2f8b27ff88e0eb
# Bob's public key, X25519(b, 9):
#     de9edb7d7b7dc1b4d35b61c2ece435373f8343c85b78674dadfc7e146f882b4f
# Their shared secret, K:
#     4a5d9d5ba4ce2de1728e3bf480350f25e07e21c947d19e3376f09b3c1e161742

alicePrivKey = "77076d0a7318a57d3c16c17251b26645df4c2f87ebc0992ab177fba51db92c2a"
bobPubKey = "de9edb7d7b7dc1b4d35b61c2ece435373f8343c85b78674dadfc7e146f882b4f"

privKey = Chilkat::CkPrivateKey.new()
# This example shows only one way of loading an Ed25519 private key.
# Chilkat can load other formats (JWK, PEM, ASN.1 DER, etc.)  
# You may do so by calling LoadAnyFormat or LoadAnyFormatFile.
success = privKey.LoadEd25519(alicePrivKey,"")
if (success == false)
    print privKey.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

pubKey = Chilkat::CkPublicKey.new()
success = pubKey.LoadEd25519(bobPubKey)
if (success == false)
    print pubKey.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Create the shared secret:
eddsa = Chilkat::CkEdDSA.new()
sharedSecret = eddsa.sharedSecretENC(privKey,pubKey,"hexlower")
if (eddsa.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print eddsa.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Computed: " + sharedSecret + "\n";
print "Expected: 4a5d9d5ba4ce2de1728e3bf480350f25e07e21c947d19e3376f09b3c1e161742" + "\n";