ircd/irc/utils/confirmation.go

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Go

// Copyright (c) 2020 Shivaram Lingamneni <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>
// released under the MIT license
package utils
import (
"crypto/sha256"
"encoding/binary"
"time"
)
// ConfirmationCode Deterministically generates a confirmation code for some destructive activity;
// `name` is typically the name of the identity being destroyed (a channel being
// unregistered, or the server being crashed) and `createdAt` means a different
// value is required each time.
func ConfirmationCode(name string, createdAt time.Time) (code string) {
buf := make([]byte, len(name)+8)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(buf, uint64(createdAt.UnixNano()))
copy(buf[8:], name[:])
out := sha256.Sum256(buf)
return B32Encoder.EncodeToString(out[:3])
}