faster signature verification by serializing directly into the sha with less allocations.

helpers.go

@@ -92,46 +92,6 @@ func similarPublicKey(as, bs []PubKey) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
-// Escaping strings for JSON encoding according to RFC8259.
-// Also encloses result in quotation marks "".
-func escapeString(dst []byte, s string) []byte {
-	dst = append(dst, '"')
-	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
-		c := s[i]
-		switch {
-		case c == '"':
-			// quotation mark
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', '"'}...)
-		case c == '\\':
-			// reverse solidus
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', '\\'}...)
-		case c >= 0x20:
-			// default, rest below are control chars
-			dst = append(dst, c)
-		case c == 0x08:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'b'}...)
-		case c < 0x09:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '0', '0' + c}...)
-		case c == 0x09:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 't'}...)
-		case c == 0x0a:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'n'}...)
-		case c == 0x0c:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'f'}...)
-		case c == 0x0d:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'r'}...)
-		case c < 0x10:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '0', 0x57 + c}...)
-		case c < 0x1a:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '1', 0x20 + c}...)
-		case c < 0x20:
-			dst = append(dst, []byte{'\\', 'u', '0', '0', '1', 0x47 + c}...)
-		}
-	}
-	dst = append(dst, '"')
-	return dst
-}
-
 func subIdToSerial(subId string) int64 {
 	n := strings.Index(subId, ":")
 	if n < 0 || n > len(subId) {