gnutls_privkey_get_seed(3)

gnutls_privkey_get_seed3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/abstract.h>

int gnutls_privkey_get_seed(gnutls_privkey_t key, gnutls_digest_algorithm_t * digest, void * seed, size_t * seed_size);

Arguments

gnutls_privkey_t key

should contain a gnutls_privkey_t type

gnutls_digest_algorithm_t * digest

if non-NULL it will contain the digest algorithm used for key generation (if applicable)

void * seed

where seed will be copied to

size_t * seed_size

originally holds the size of seed , will be updated with actual size

Overview

This function will return the seed that was used to generate the given private key. That function will succeed only if the key was generated as a provable key.

Returns

On success, GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS (0) is returned, otherwise a negative error value.

Since

3.5.0

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.