publickey(3N) — NETWORK FUNCTIONS
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.