From bb5e0c3d468139de0349d2a3d85e3b109ba83bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:27:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify documentation on external account key encoding

---
 src/lib.rs | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b03aadb..99e3387 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -685,6 +685,9 @@ pub struct ExternalAccountKey {
 
 impl ExternalAccountKey {
     /// Create a new external account key
+    ///
+    /// Note that the `key_value` argument represents the raw key value, so if the caller holds
+    /// an encoded key value (for example, using base64), decode it before passing it in.
     pub fn new(id: String, key_value: &[u8]) -> Self {
         Self {
             id,