Round-trip additional fields in public keys.
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- Go
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Description
We need to make sure we can decode and then re-encode public keys back into the same datastructure. That means preserving unknown fields (which I believe we don't currently do).
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Research direction
Locate the public-key decode and encode entry points in the Go repository and inspect how fields are represented between those operations. Check existing tests around public-key serialization, if present, and verify that decoding and re-encoding a key preserves unknown fields and produces the same data structure.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cryptography, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100