package cybersecurity import ( "fmt" "golang.org/x/crypto/chacha20poly1305" ) // OpenAEAD decrypts a ciphertext produced by SealAEAD using ChaCha20-Poly1305. // key must be exactly 32 bytes. nonce must match the one returned by SealAEAD. // aad must match what was passed to SealAEAD (can be nil). // Returns an error if authentication fails (tampered ciphertext, wrong key, or wrong aad). func OpenAEAD(key, nonce, ciphertext, aad []byte) ([]byte, error) { if len(key) != chacha20poly1305.KeySize { return nil, fmt.Errorf("open_aead: key must be %d bytes, got %d", chacha20poly1305.KeySize, len(key)) } aead, err := chacha20poly1305.New(key) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("open_aead: create cipher: %w", err) } plaintext, err := aead.Open(nil, nonce, ciphertext, aad) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("open_aead: authentication failed: %w", err) } return plaintext, nil }