was the preamble wrong the whole time?

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/registry/registry.go b/registry/registry.go
index 290c2bd..6733c74 100644
--- a/registry/registry.go
+++ b/registry/registry.go
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ func (r *Registry) Actor(name string) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
 	privKey := &keypair.PrivateKey
 	pemdata := pem.EncodeToMemory(
 		&pem.Block{
-			Type:  "PUBLIC KEY",
+			Type:  "RSA PUBLIC KEY",
 			Bytes: x509.MarshalPKCS1PublicKey(&privKey.PublicKey),
 		},
 	)
@@ -302,7 +302,8 @@ func (r *Registry) deliverAcceptToInbox(url, actorUrl, actorKeyUrl *url.URL, fol
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// verify our own signature to ensure sanity
+	// sanity check: decode our own public key from our PEM representation and attempt to verify
+
 	err = rsa.VerifyPKCS1v15(&privKey.PublicKey, crypto.SHA256, digestBytes[:], signature)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err