SETKEY(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual SETKEY(3P)PROLOG
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NAMEsetkey — set encoding key (CRYPT)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
void setkey(const char *key);
DESCRIPTION
The setkey() function provides access to an implementation-defined
encoding algorithm. The argument of setkey() is an array of length 64
bytes containing only the bytes with numerical value of 0 and 1. If
this string is divided into groups of 8, the low-order bit in each
group is ignored; this gives a 56-bit key which is used by the algo‐
rithm. This is the key that shall be used with the algorithm to encode
a string block passed to encrypt().
The setkey() function shall not change the setting of errno if success‐
ful. An application wishing to check for error situations should set
errno to 0 before calling setkey(). If errno is non-zero on return, an
error has occurred.
The setkey() function need not be thread-safe.
RETURN VALUE
No values are returned.
ERRORS
The setkey() function shall fail if:
ENOSYS The functionality is not supported on this implementation.
The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
None.
APPLICATION USAGE
Decoding need not be implemented in all environments. This is related
to government restrictions in some countries on encryption and decryp‐
tion routines. Historical practice has been to ship a different version
of the encryption library without the decryption feature in the rou‐
tines supplied. Thus the exported version of encrypt() does encoding
but not decoding.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSOcrypt(), encrypt()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <stdlib.h>
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