setPrivateKey
Sets the Diffie-Hellman private key. If the encoding
argument is provided,privateKey
is expected to be a string. If no encoding
is provided, privateKey
is expected to be a Buffer
, TypedArray
, or DataView
.
This function does not automatically compute the associated public key. Either diffieHellman.setPublicKey()
or diffieHellman.generateKeys()
can be used to manually provide the public key or to automatically derive it.
Since
v0.5.0
Parameters
encoding
The encoding
of the privateKey
string.