NAME¶

WebAuth::Key - WebAuth encryption and decryption key

SYNOPSIS¶

    use WebAuth qw(WA_KEY_AES WA_AES_128);
    use WebAuth::Key;
    my $wa = WebAuth->new;
    eval {
        $key = WebAuth::Key->new ($wa, WA_KEY_AES, WA_AES_128);
        ...
    };
    if ($@) {
        # handle exception
    }

DESCRIPTION¶

A WebAuth::Key object represents a single WebAuth key, which can be used for encryption or decryption. Keys are normally stored in WebAuth::Keyring objects, and token encoding and decoding requires a keyring rather than a key.

To convert a key to a keyring, see the WebAuth keyring_new() method or "WebAuth::Keyring->new".

A WebAuth::Key object will be destroyed when the WebAuth context used to create it is destroyed, and subsequent accesses to it may cause memory access errors or other serious bugs. Be careful not to retain a copy of a WebAuth::Key object after the WebAuth object that created it has been destroyed.

CLASS METHODS¶

As with WebAuth module functions, failures are signaled by throwing WebAuth::Exception rather than by return status.

new (WEBAUTH, TYPE, SIZE[, KEY_MATERIAL])

Create a new WebAuth::Key object within the provided WebAuth context, which must be a valid WebAuth object. TYPE currently must be WA_KEY_AES, and SIZE must be one of WA_AES_128, WA_AES_192, or WA_AES_256. This may change in the future if WebAuth gains support for additional key types.

If KEY_MATERIAL is given, it should contain SIZE bytes of data, which will be used as the key. If KEY_MATERIAL is not given or is undef, a new random key of the specified TYPE and SIZE will be generated.

This is a convenience wrapper around the WebAuth key_create() method.

INSTANCE METHODS¶

data ()

Returns the binary key data.

length ()

Returns the length of the key, which will currently be one of WA_AES_128, WA_AES_192, or WA_AES_256. This is the length of the key in bytes.

type ()

Returns the type of the key, which currently will always be WA_KEY_AES.

AUTHOR¶

Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>

SEE ALSO¶

WebAuth(3), WebAuth::Keyring(3)

This module is part of WebAuth. The current version is available from <http://webauth.stanford.edu/>.