.\" @(#)publickey.3r 2.1 88/08/07 4.0 RPCSRC
.TH PUBLICKEY 3R "6 October 1987"
publickey, getpublickey, getsecretkey \- get public or secret key
.B #include <rpc/key_prot.h>
.B getpublickey(netname, publickey)
.B char netname[\s-1MAXNETNAMELEN\s0+1];
.B char publickey[\s-1HEXKEYBYTES\s0+1];
.B getsecretkey(netname, secretkey, passwd)
.B char netname[\s-1MAXNETNAMELEN\s0+1];
.B char secretkey[\s-1HEXKEYBYTES\s0+1];
.IX "getpublickey function" "" "\fLgetpublickey()\fP function"
.IX "getsecretkey function" "" "\fLgetsecretkey()\fP function"
These routines are used to get public and secret keys from the
which is 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.
hexadecimal strings. If the password supplied to
fails to decrypt the secret key, the routine will return 1 but the
.I \s-1RPC\s0 Programmer's Manual