Feature Request: Asymmetric Encryption

[kevinjanada]

There are some use cases where asymmetric encryption is needed, where the public key is used to encrypt a message, and private key is used to decrypt that message.
Currently this is not possible because there is no API in that lets us use the private key of an account.

Is this something that is possible to be implemented?
I don't mind having a try at this myself if it is.

[jacogr]

There is no exposed asymmetric encryption/decryption in sr25519. See polkadot-js/common#633

[kevinjanada]

I see..
Just an idea, but would it make sense to have a separate set of keypairs (call it encryption keypairs)?
If so, i think the keypairs can be in ed25519 and therefore use naclSeal & naclOpen for encrypt/decrypt

[jacogr]

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