types/key: make NodePublic implement Shardable (#4698)

Needed for an experiment in Control.

Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
pull/4690/head
Tom 2 years ago committed by GitHub
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commit ec4c49a338
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@ -147,6 +147,18 @@ type NodePublic struct {
k [32]byte
}
// Shard returns a uint8 number from a public key with
// mostly-uniform distribution, suitable for sharding.
func (p NodePublic) Shard() uint8 {
// A 25519 public key isn't uniformly random, as it ultimately
// corresponds to a point on the curve.
// But we don't need perfectly uniformly-random, we need
// good-enough-for-sharding random, so we haphazardly
// combine raw values of the key to give us something sufficient.
s := uint8(p.k[31]) + uint8(p.k[30]) + uint8(p.k[20])
return s ^ uint8(p.k[2] + p.k[12])
}
// ParseNodePublicUntyped parses an untyped 64-character hex value
// as a NodePublic.
//

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