Key Struct Reference

#include <avis/keys.h>

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Detailed Description

A key value used to secure notifications.

A key is simply an immutable block of bytes.

Elvin defines two types of key, private (or raw) keys, and public (or prime) keys. A public key is a one-way hash (e.g. using SHA-1) of a private key. A private key may be any random data, or simply a password. A private key is defined to match a public key if the corresponding hash of its data matches the public key's data, e.g. if sha1 (privateKey.data) == publicKey.data.

Note that this is not a public key system in the RSA sense but that, like RSA, public keys can be shared in the open without loss of security.

Data Fields
uint8_t *	data
uint32_t	length

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Field Documentation

uint8_t* Key::data

uint32_t Key::length

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The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:

• avis/keys.h