ed25519.Public Result Discrepancy

The issue arises from different formats for ed25519 private keys. The key starts as a 32-byte seed that is hashed using SHA512 to create 64 bytes (certain bits are flipped during this process).

Golang Private Key Format

The Golang private key format comprises the 32-byte seed concatenated with the 32-byte public key.

Bittorrent Private Key Format

The Bittorrent private keys are the 64-byte output of the hash or potentially just 64 random bytes used in the same way as the hash result.

Converting Bittorrent Keys to Golang Format

Unfortunately, it's not feasible to convert Bittorrent keys into a format that the Golang API accepts because the hash process is not reversible.

Custom Golang Implementation for Test Vectors

To address this issue, a modified version of the Golang library based on the internal package golang.org/x/crypto/ed25519/internal/edwards25519 can be created:

Function for Generating Public Key from Private Key

func getPublicKey(privateKey []byte) []byte {
    var A edwards25519.ExtendedGroupElement
    var hBytes [32]byte
    copy(hBytes[:], privateKey)
    edwards25519.GeScalarMultBase(&A, &hBytes)
    var publicKeyBytes [32]byte
    A.ToBytes(&publicKeyBytes)

    return publicKeyBytes[:]
}

Function for Signature Generation

func sign(privateKey, publicKey, message []byte) []byte {

    var privateKeyA [32]byte
    copy(privateKeyA[:], privateKey) // we need this in an array later
    var messageDigest, hramDigest [64]byte

    h := sha512.New()
    h.Write(privateKey[32:])
    h.Write(message)
    h.Sum(messageDigest[:0])

    var messageDigestReduced [32]byte
    edwards25519.ScReduce(&messageDigestReduced, &messageDigest)
    var R edwards25519.ExtendedGroupElement
    edwards25519.GeScalarMultBase(&R, &messageDigestReduced)

    var encodedR [32]byte
    R.ToBytes(&encodedR)

    h.Reset()
    h.Write(encodedR[:])
    h.Write(publicKey)
    h.Write(message)
    h.Sum(hramDigest[:0])
    var hramDigestReduced [32]byte
    edwards25519.ScReduce(&hramDigestReduced, &hramDigest)

    var s [32]byte
    edwards25519.ScMulAdd(&s, &hramDigestReduced, &privateKeyA, &messageDigestReduced)

    signature := make([]byte, 64)
    copy(signature[:], encodedR[:])
    copy(signature[32:], s[:])

    return signature
}

Example Usage

const privateKeyHex = "e06d3183d14159228433ed599221b80bd0a5ce8352e4bdf0262f76786ef1c74db7e7a9fea2c0eb269d61e3b38e450a22e754941ac78479d6c54e1faf6037881d"

const expectedPublicKey = "77ff84905a91936367c01360803104f92432fcd904a43511876df5cdf3e7e548"
const expectedSig = "6834284b6b24c3204eb2fea824d82f88883a3d95e8b4a21b8c0ded553d17d17ddf9a8a7104b1258f30bed3787e6cb896fca78c58f8e03b5f18f14951a87d9a08"

privateKey, _ := hex.DecodeString(privateKeyHex)
publicKey := getPublicKey(privateKey)

keyMatches := expectedPublicKey == hex.EncodeToString(publicKey)
sigMatches := expectedSig == hex.EncodeToString(sign(privateKey, publicKey, []byte("4:salt6:foobar3:seqi1e1:v12:Hello World!")))