feat(grpc): support Ed25519 message signing and verification

[BuidlWithShivam]

Fix for the issue : Sign and verify message by ed25519

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[b00f]

@BuidlWithShivam,

Thank you so much for this amazing PR. It’s great to see how smart you are in understanding the logic and fixing this issue. Good job!
By thee way, I feel we can improve it in some ways.

First of all, it’s great to see that you can detect the type of PrivateKey by their prefixes. This approach is better than checking for errors in the public key. We can do the same for the public key as well, like this:

	maybeBLSPublicKey := func(str string) bool {
		return strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(str), "public1p")
	}

	maybeEd25519PublicKey := func(str string) bool {
		return strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(str), "public1r")
	}
	switch {
	case maybeBLSPublicKey(req.PublicKey):
		/// ...

	case maybeEd25519PublicKey(req.PublicKey):
		/// ...

	default:
		return nil, status.Error(codes.InvalidArgument, "invalid public key")
	}

Now, we can make another improvement here. PublicKeys are interfaces. We can simplify the above code by creating a function that takes a string and returns a PublicKey as an interface.

We can define a function like this:

func (*utilServer) publicKeyFromString(pubStr string) (crypto.PublicKey, error) {
	maybeBLSPublicKey := func(str string) bool {
		return strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(str), "secret1p")
	}

	maybeEd25519PublicKey := func(str string) bool {
		return strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(str), "secret1e")
	}

	switch {
	case maybeBLSPublicKey(pubStr):
		blsPub, err := bls.PublicKeyFromString(pubStr)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, status.Error(codes.InvalidArgument, "invalid private key")
		}
		return blsPub, nil

	case maybeEd25519PublicKey(pubStr):
		ed25519Pub, err := ed25519.PublicKeyFromString(pubStr)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, status.Error(codes.InvalidArgument, "invalid private key")
		}
		return ed25519Pub, nil

	default:
		return nil, status.Error(codes.InvalidArgument, "invalid private key")
	}
}

Finally we can make the same for PrivateKey

[BuidlWithShivam]

@b00f Sure. Thanks for the review. I was not aware that the public key also has the same structure. Tried to find across the code but couldn't. Thanks for the suggestion on the interface as well. I just saw two different structs and missed the interface. I will implement those.

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@b00f Made the changes. Can you please check.

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[b00f]

@BuidlWithShivam
I decided to use error checking instead of prefix checking. Using error checking makes this much simpler, reducing the code by almost 20 lines.

[b00f]

Good job @BuidlWithShivam

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