zmq_curve_keypair(3)

zmq_curve_keypair3

Generate a new curve keypair

Usage

int zmq_curve_keypair (char *z85_public_key, char *z85_secret_key);

Overview

The zmq_curve_keypair() function shall return a newly generated random keypair consisting of a public key and a secret key. The caller provides two buffers, each at least 41 octets large, in which this method will store the keys. The keys are encoded using zmq_z85_encode(3).

Return value

The zmq_curve_keypair() function shall return 0 if successful, else it shall return -1 and set errno to one of the values defined below.

Errors

ENOTSUP

The libzmq library was not built with cryptographic support (libsodium).

Examples

Generating a new CURVE keypair.

char public_key [41];
char secret_key [41];
int rc = zmq_curve_keypair (public_key, secret_key);
assert (rc == 0);

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Authors

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