Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into rpcargs

Conflicts:
	rpc/args.go

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/crypto.go b/crypto/crypto.go
index c3d47b629..442942c6c 100644
--- a/crypto/crypto.go
+++ b/crypto/crypto.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 
 	"encoding/hex"
@@ -139,6 +140,12 @@ func LoadECDSA(file string) (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) {
 	return ToECDSA(buf), nil
 }
 
+// SaveECDSA saves a secp256k1 private key to the given file with restrictive
+// permissions
+func SaveECDSA(file string, key *ecdsa.PrivateKey) error {
+	return ioutil.WriteFile(file, FromECDSA(key), 0600)
+}
+
 func GenerateKey() (*ecdsa.PrivateKey, error) {
 	return ecdsa.GenerateKey(S256(), rand.Reader)
 }
diff --git a/crypto/key.go b/crypto/key.go
index 9dbf37467..0b84bfec1 100644
--- a/crypto/key.go
+++ b/crypto/key.go
@@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ func (k *Key) UnmarshalJSON(j []byte) (err error) {
 	return err
 }
 
+func NewKeyFromECDSA(privateKeyECDSA *ecdsa.PrivateKey) *Key {
+	id := uuid.NewRandom()
+	key := &Key{
+		Id:         id,
+		Address:    PubkeyToAddress(privateKeyECDSA.PublicKey),
+		PrivateKey: privateKeyECDSA,
+	}
+	return key
+}
+
 func NewKey(rand io.Reader) *Key {
 	randBytes := make([]byte, 64)
 	_, err := rand.Read(randBytes)
@@ -97,11 +107,5 @@ func NewKey(rand io.Reader) *Key {
 		panic("key generation: ecdsa.GenerateKey failed: " + err.Error())
 	}
 
-	id := uuid.NewRandom()
-	key := &Key{
-		Id:         id,
-		Address:    PubkeyToAddress(privateKeyECDSA.PublicKey),
-		PrivateKey: privateKeyECDSA,
-	}
-	return key
+	return NewKeyFromECDSA(privateKeyECDSA)
 }