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publickey(3N)

retrieve public or secret key

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

Also by this name: publickey(4), File formats and configuration files

NAME

publickey: getpublickey, getsecretkey - retrieve public or secret key

SYNOPSIS

#include <rpc/rpc.h>
#include <rpc/key_prot.h>
getpublickey(const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],
     char publickey[HEXKEYBYTES]);
getsecretkey(const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],
     char secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES], const char *passwd);

DESCRIPTION

getpublickey and getsecretkey get public and secret keys for netname from the publickey(4) database. getsecretkey has an extra argument, passwd, used to decrypt the encrypted secret key stored in the database. Both routines return 1 if they are successful in finding the key, 0 otherwise. The keys are returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal strings. If the password supplied to getsecretkey fails to decrypt the secret key, the routine will return 1 but the secretkey argument will be a NULL string.

SEE ALSO

publickey(4).