This section explains how to create a key using the keystore.
Before you create a key, you must know which keystore the new key must be stored in. See Retrieving Keystores for more information.
The following steps explain the process of creating a key:
A new key is created and stored in the selected keystore.
The following code snippet shows how to set a file system session object, initialise keystore and member functions, and create a key.
//Create a file system session object RFs iFs; CleanupClosePushL(&iFs); //Initialise the keystore and member functions CUnifiedKeyStore* keyStore = CUnifiedKeyStore::NewL(iFs); keyStore->Initialize(iStatus); //iStatus is a TRequestStatus object //Initialise the arguments to be passed into the CreateKey() function TKeyUsagePKCS15 usage = EPKCS15UsageSign | EPKCS15UsageSignRecover; TUint keysize = 512; _LIT(KLabel,”keylabel”); CCTKeyInfo::EKeyAlgorithm algorithm = CCTKeyInfo::EDSA; TInt accessType = CCTKeyInfo::EExtractable; TTime startDate, endDate; startDate.HomeTime(); endDate.HomeTime(); // Create a pointer for data returned by CreateKey() CCTKeyInfo* keyInfo; //Create the key keyStore->CreateKey(0, usage, keysize, KLabel, algorithm, accessType, startDate, endDate, keyInfo, iStatus); //Clean up CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // iFs