Create Key in C

The TECreateKey() function is used to create a key. You can set the algorithm and the ACL template when you call this function.

Code Samples

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< c_createkey.c>

/****************************************************************************************
*  c_createkey.c
*
*
*****************************************************************************************/

#include <stdio.h>
#include "teagent_c.h"

void PrintError(const char * msg)
{
    char szErr[1024];
    uint32_t nLength = 1024;
    uint32_t nCode = GetLastTEError(szErr, &nLength);
    printf("%s Code = 0x%x, Message = %s\n", msg, nCode, szErr);
}

int main()
{
    TE_HANDLE h;
    TE_RETCODE ret;
   
    /* Initialize the TE environment */
    TEEnvInit();

    /* Open connection to KeyServer */
    {
        char * szServerName = "localhost";     /* server name */
        long   lPort = 8888;                   /* port number */
        char * szUserName = "ls";              /* user name */
        char * szPassword = "password1A";      /* password */ 

        /* Open a connection */
        h = OpenConnectionWithNativeUser(
                TE_SSL_CONNECTION,     /* connection type */
                szServerName,          /* TE server name */ 
                lPort,                 /* TE server port */ 
                szUserName,            /* user name */ 
                strlen(szUserName),    /* user name length */ 
                szPassword,            /* password */ 
                strlen(szPassword)     /* password length */ 
                );
        if (h == 0)
        {
            PrintError("Connection error:");
            goto CLEANUP;
        }
        else
            printf("Connected to %s at %d as %s\n", szServerName, lPort, szUserName);
    }

    /* Create key */
    {
#define KEY_BUFFER_SIZE        1024
#define HIDDENLINK_BUFFER_SIZE 100

        char * algorithm = NULL;      /* set to NULL or "" to use KeyServer default algorithm */
        char * acltemplate = NULL;    /* set to NULL or "" if no alc template is provided */
        unsigned char hl[HIDDENLINK_BUFFER_SIZE]; 
        int len;
        int i;

        ret = TECreateKey(
            h,                         /* connection handle */
            algorithm,                 /* algorithm */
            acltemplate,               /* ACL template name */
            hl,                        /* T-tag buffer */
            HIDDENLINK_BUFFER_SIZE,    /* T-tag buffer size */
            &len                       /* returned T-tag data length */
            );

        if(ret) {
            PrintError("Create key failed:");
            goto CLEANUP;
        }

        printf("T-tag (len = %d) :\n", len);
        for(i=0; i<len; i++) {
            printf("[%2x] ", hl[i]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
    

CLEANUP:
    /* Close a connection */
    CloseConnection(h);

    printf("Disconnected from server\n\n");

    /* Uninitialize the TE environment */
    TEEnvClose();
    return 0;
}

Output
Connected to localhost at 8888 as ls
T-tag (len = 40) :
[ 0] [ 0] [ 0] [ 1] [99] [c7] [ae] [43] [95] [c8] [71] [b8] [ee] [a4] [d0] [40] [a2] [f7] [53] [a3] [6c] [c1] [86] [43]
[46] [96] [7a] [a0] [a9] [6e] [ 4] [12] [66] [99] [b6] [4a] [c4] [db] [7b] [e2]
Disconnected from server

Create Key in C​

Code Samples​

< c_createkey.c>​

Create Key in C

Code Samples

< c_createkey.c>