---
title: seedRepresentation
framework: cryptokit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: cryptokit/mldsa65/privatekey/seedrepresentation
---

# seedRepresentation

The seed representation of the private key.

## Declaration

```swift
var seedRepresentation: Data { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The seed representation is 32 bytes long, and is the parameter for the ML-DSA.KeyGen_internal algorithm (Algorithm 16) of FIPS 204.

## See Also

### Inspecting a private key’s properties

- [integrityCheckedRepresentation](cryptokit/mldsa65/privatekey/integritycheckedrepresentation.md)
- [publicKey](cryptokit/mldsa65/privatekey/publickey.md)