method ECDH.prototype.getPublicKey

Overload 1

#ECDH.prototype.getPublicKey(encoding?: null,
format?: ECDHKeyFormat,
): Buffer

The format argument specifies point encoding and can be 'compressed' or 'uncompressed'. If format is not specified the point will be returned in'uncompressed' format.

If encoding is specified, a string is returned; otherwise a Buffer is returned.

Parameters #

optional

#encoding: null

The encoding of the return value.

optional

#format: ECDHKeyFormat = 'uncompressed'

Return Type #

Buffer

The EC Diffie-Hellman public key in the specified encoding and format.

Overload 2

#ECDH.prototype.getPublicKey(encoding: BinaryToTextEncoding,
format?: ECDHKeyFormat,
): string

Parameters #

#encoding: BinaryToTextEncoding

optional

#format: ECDHKeyFormat

Return Type #

string