package keyspace import ( "bytes" "crypto/sha256" "math/big" ) // XORKeySpace is a KeySpace which: // - normalizes identifiers using a cryptographic hash (sha256) // - measures distance by XORing keys together var XORKeySpace = &xorKeySpace{} var _ KeySpace = XORKeySpace // ensure it conforms type xorKeySpace struct{} // Key converts an identifier into a Key in this space. func (s *xorKeySpace) Key(id []byte) Key { hash := sha256.Sum256(id) key := hash[:] return Key{ Space: s, Original: id, Bytes: key, } } // Equal returns whether keys are equal in this key space func (s *xorKeySpace) Equal(k1, k2 Key) bool { return bytes.Equal(k1.Bytes, k2.Bytes) } // Distance returns the distance metric in this key space func (s *xorKeySpace) Distance(k1, k2 Key) *big.Int { // XOR the keys k3 := XOR(k1.Bytes, k2.Bytes) // interpret it as an integer dist := big.NewInt(0).SetBytes(k3) return dist } // Less returns whether the first key is smaller than the second. func (s *xorKeySpace) Less(k1, k2 Key) bool { a := k1.Bytes b := k2.Bytes for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ { if a[i] != b[i] { return a[i] < b[i] } } return true } // ZeroPrefixLen returns the number of consecutive zeroes in a byte slice. func ZeroPrefixLen(id []byte) int { for i := 0; i < len(id); i++ { for j := 0; j < 8; j++ { if (id[i]>>uint8(7-j))&0x1 != 0 { return i*8 + j } } } return len(id) * 8 } // XOR takes two byte slices, XORs them together, returns the resulting slice. func XOR(a, b []byte) []byte { c := make([]byte, len(a)) for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ { c[i] = a[i] ^ b[i] } return c }