package capnp-rpc-lwt

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type t

The object ID passed in the Cap'n Proto Bootstrap message.

val generate : unit -> t

generate () is a fresh unguessable service ID. Note: you must initialise `Nocrypto`'s entropy before calling this (you will get a runtime error if you forget).

val derived : secret:string -> string -> t

derived ~secret name is a service ID based on secret and name. It is calculated as SHA256.hmac secret name. secret could be the hash of a private key file, for example.

val public : string -> t

public name is the service ID name. This may be useful for interoperability with non-secure clients that expect to use a plain-text service ID (e.g. "calculator"). It could also be useful if name is some unguessable token you have generated yourself.

val digest : Auth.hash -> t -> string

digest h id is the digest h id.

Since id is normally a secret token, we must be careful not to allow timing attacks (taking a slightly different amount of time to return an error depending on how much of the ID the caller guessed correctly). Taking a secure hash of the value first is one way to avoid this, since revealing the hash isn't helpful to the attacker.

val to_string : t -> string

to_string t is the raw bytes of t.

val pp : t Fmt.t
val equal : t -> t -> bool