crypto/x509: incorrect mention of "EC Public Key" for ParseECPrivateKey docs, should be "EC Private Key" #36788
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Thank you for reporting this issue @matthew119427 and welcome to the Go project! Thank you @agnivade for the triage! @matthew119427, this issue has been fixed for Go1.14 by @katiehockman's commit ee04dbf aka CL https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/207918 and you can see the change on https://tip.golang.org/pkg/crypto/x509/#ParseECPrivateKey Please keep noticing and reporting anything unusual. Thank you! |
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What version of Go are you using (
go version)?Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?
Yes
What operating system and processor architecture are you using (
go env)?Manjaro Linux x64
What did you expect to see?
Documentation should read
This kind of key is commonly encoded in PEM blocks of type "EC PRIVATE KEY".What did you see instead?
The documentation for x509#ParseECPrivateKey states
This kind of key is commonly encoded in PEM blocks of type "EC PUBLIC KEY"., however we're parsing a private key here, the block wouldn't be "EC PUBLIC KEY".The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: