ec.keyFromPrivate returns a KeyPair with a private key even when receiving a random input

[ziccardi]

I need to perform some validation on received ECDSA keys. I tried the following code:

const key = Buffer.from('asdfasf', 'base64').toString('ascii'));
const kp = ec.keyFromPrivate(key);

I was expecting to receive an error or a null result. It surprised me to receive a KeyPair object populated with a private key. Is there any way to validate the input to be sure that received data is really a private key?

Just for completeness, that does not happens with keyFromPublic.

[fanatid]

There no validation in elliptic right now. It's probably will work when indutny/bn.js will have encoding validation on creation and version will be updated in elliptic.