Exporting a Public Key

A public key is exported in the Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)-encoded ASN.1 format.

The following steps explain the process of exporting a public key:


  1. Create a file system session using an RFs object.

  2. Create an object of type CUnifiedKeyStore using CUnifiedKeyStore::NewL() or CUnifiedKeyStore::NewLC().

  3. Initialize the member functions and keystore using the asynchronous function CUnifiedKeyStore::Initialize().

  4. Use the CUnifiedKeyStore::List() function to list the keys in the keystore. Retrieve the handle of the public key to be exported.

  5. Use the CUnifiedKeyStore::ExportPublic() function to export the public key.

A public key is exported to the device memory.

Example

The following code snippet shows how to set a file system session object, list the keys in the keystore and then export the selected public 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


//List the keys of the keystore
RPointerArray<CCTKeyInfo> iKeys; // This variable will contain the result after the completion of the export operation
TCTKeyAttributeFilter  filter.iUsage = EPKCS15UsageAll;
keyStore->List(iKeys, filter, iStatus);

...


//Retrieve the handle of the public key to be exported
_LIT(KLabel,”keylabel”);


//Select the key with the label you are looking for
TInt keyIndex;
for (TInt j = 0; j < iKeys.Count(); j++)
    {
    if (iKeys[j]->Label() == KLabel) 
        {
         keyIndex = j;
         break;
        }
    }


...


//Export the key 
HBufC8* iKeyData = NULL;
TCTTokenObjectHandle aHandle = iKeys[keyIndex]->Handle();
keyStore->ExportPublic(aHandle, iKeyData, iStatus);


//Clean up
CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // iFs
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