go-nostr/nip13/nip13.go

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// Package nip13 implements NIP-13
// See https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md for details.
package nip13
import (
"encoding/hex"
"errors"
"math/bits"
"strconv"
"time"
nostr "github.com/nbd-wtf/go-nostr"
)
var (
ErrDifficultyTooLow = errors.New("nip13: insufficient difficulty")
ErrGenerateTimeout = errors.New("nip13: generating proof of work took too long")
ErrMissingPubKey = errors.New("nip13: attempting to work on an event without a pubkey, which makes no sense")
)
// Difficulty counts the number of leading zero bits in an event ID.
func Difficulty(id string) int {
var zeros int
var b [1]byte
for i := 0; i < 64; i += 2 {
if id[i:i+2] == "00" {
zeros += 8
continue
}
if _, err := hex.Decode(b[:], []byte{id[i], id[i+1]}); err != nil {
return -1
}
zeros += bits.LeadingZeros8(b[0])
break
}
return zeros
}
// Check reports whether the event ID demonstrates a sufficient proof of work difficulty.
// Note that Check performs no validation other than counting leading zero bits
// in an event ID. It is up to the callers to verify the event with other methods,
// such as [nostr.Event.CheckSignature].
func Check(id string, minDifficulty int) error {
if Difficulty(id) < minDifficulty {
return ErrDifficultyTooLow
}
return nil
}
// Generate performs proof of work on the specified event until either the target
// difficulty is reached or the function runs for longer than the timeout.
// The latter case results in ErrGenerateTimeout.
//
// Upon success, the returned event always contains a "nonce" tag with the target difficulty
// commitment, and an updated event.CreatedAt.
func Generate(event *nostr.Event, targetDifficulty int, timeout time.Duration) (*nostr.Event, error) {
if event.PubKey == "" {
return nil, ErrMissingPubKey
}
tag := nostr.Tag{"nonce", "", strconv.Itoa(targetDifficulty)}
event.Tags = append(event.Tags, tag)
var nonce uint64
start := time.Now()
for {
nonce++
tag[1] = strconv.FormatUint(nonce, 10)
if Difficulty(event.GetID()) >= targetDifficulty {
return event, nil
}
// benchmarks show one iteration is approx 3000ns on i7-8565U @ 1.8GHz.
// so, check every 30ms; arbitrary
if nonce%10000 == 0 && time.Since(start) > timeout {
return nil, ErrGenerateTimeout
}
}
}