Wrap a pair of sodium keys for asymmetric encryption. You should pass your private key and the public key of the person that you are communicating with.
Arguments
- pub
A sodium public key. This is either a raw vector of length 32 or a path to file containing the contents of the key (written by
writeBin()).- key
A sodium private key. This is either a raw vector of length 32 or a path to file containing the contents of the key (written by
writeBin()).- authenticated
Logical, indicating if authenticated encryption (via
sodium::auth_encrypt()/sodium::auth_decrypt()) should be used. IfFALSEthensodium::simple_encrypt()/sodium::simple_decrypt()will be used. The difference is that withauthenticated = TRUEthe message is signed with your private key so that tampering with the message will be detected.
Details
NOTE: the order here (pub, key) is very important; if the wrong order is used you cannot decrypt things. Unfortunately because sodium keys are just byte sequences there is nothing to distinguish the public and private keys so this is a pretty easy mistake to make.
See also
keypair_openssl() for a similar function using
openssl keypairs
Examples
# Generate two keypairs, one for Alice, and one for Bob
key_alice <- sodium::keygen()
pub_alice <- sodium::pubkey(key_alice)
key_bob <- sodium::keygen()
pub_bob <- sodium::pubkey(key_bob)
# Alice wants to send Bob a message so she creates a key pair with
# her private key and bob's public key (she does not have bob's
# private key).
pair_alice <- cyphr::keypair_sodium(pub = pub_bob, key = key_alice)
# She can then encrypt a secret message:
secret <- cyphr::encrypt_string("hi bob", pair_alice)
secret
#> [1] 5a 27 6c 7e fa 92 43 bd aa 96 05 cc f7 f1 f1 0b 17 bd 57 2f 23 81 73 0a 7c
#> [26] d6 ee fb 57 74 b2 7c e6 cb 59 b2 95 82 b6 61 e3 32 48 a9 ab 5f
# Bob wants to read the message so he creates a key pair using
# Alice's public key and his private key:
pair_bob <- cyphr::keypair_sodium(pub = pub_alice, key = key_bob)
cyphr::decrypt_string(secret, pair_bob)
#> [1] "hi bob"