Struct SigningContext 

pub struct SigningContext(/* private fields */);

Schnorr signing context

We expect users to have separate SigningContexts for each role that signature play in their protocol. These SigningContexts may be global lazy_static!s, or perhaps constants in future.

To sign a message, apply the appropriate inherent method to create a signature transcript.

You should use merlin::Transcripts directly if you must do anything more complex, like use signatures in larger zero-knowledge protocols or sign several components but only reveal one later.

We declare these methods #[inline(always)] because rustc does not handle large returns as efficiently as one might like. https://github.com/rust-random/rand/issues/817

Implementations

impl SigningContext

pub fn new(context: &[u8]) -> SigningContext

Initialize a signing context from a static byte string that identifies the signature’s role in the larger protocol.

pub fn bytes(&self, bytes: &[u8]) -> Transcript

Initialize an owned signing transcript on a message provided as a byte array.

Avoid this method when processing large slices because it calls merlin::Transcript::append_message directly and merlin is designed for domain seperation, not performance.

pub fn xof<D: ExtendableOutput>(&self, h: D) -> Transcript

Initialize an owned signing transcript on a message provided as a hash function with extensible output mode (XOF) by finalizing the hash and extracting 32 bytes from XOF.

pub fn hash256<D: FixedOutput<OutputSize = U32>>(&self, h: D) -> Transcript

Initialize an owned signing transcript on a message provided as a hash function with 256 bit output.

pub fn hash512<D: FixedOutput<OutputSize = U64>>(&self, h: D) -> Transcript

Initialize an owned signing transcript on a message provided as a hash function with 512 bit output, usually a gross over kill.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for SigningContext

fn clone(&self) -> SigningContext

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.