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Radar · Go · Archive · Week 20 · May 12 – 18, 2025

crypto/ecdsa: add NewPublicKey and PublicKey.Bytes

Nice to knowstdlib

What changed
The ecdsa package now supports parsing and encoding uncompressed public keys via ParseUncompressedPublicKey and PublicKey.Bytes.
Production impact
The source does not say.
Try it
Parse a known uncompressed key with ParseUncompressedPublicKey and then round‑trip it with PublicKey.Bytes.
Source
github.com/golang/go/issues/63963

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