tweetnacl -- What input does nacl.box.keyPair.fromSecretKey expect?

Question

I am little bit confused about the API of tweetnacl. Does the function nacl.box.keyPair.fromSecretKey except the secretKey argument to be already clamped? Or it is it fine to provide a random byte string? The way I read the code, tweetnacl does the clamping later on, correct? So is the secretKey in tweetNacl always a random byte string and the clamping is done in internal library functions?

Answer 1

Correct, you don't need to be concerned with 25519 clamping.

The library handles this. You simply need to supply a uniformly random 256-bit string.