From: Rob McCool <robm@netscape.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: secure_keyfn
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 15:06:42 -0700

John Studarus wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to use the client key (within Netscape
> Navigator) to decrypt/encrypt messages (outside of the
> HTTP steam)?  I found:
> 
> #ifdef NET_SSL
>     char *secure_keyfn;
>     char *secure_certfn;
>     int secure_auth;
>     int secure_session_timeout;
>     long ssl3_secure_session_timeout;
>     int security;
>     int ssl3;
>     int ssl2;
> #endif
> 
>         in base/daemon.h.  Does anyone know what secure_keyfn
> and secure_certfn are?  Is there documentation somewhere
> describing these pointers and what they may be used for?

The entries in that structure are configuration parameters. keyfn and
certfn are file names. To my knowledge we don't provide the current
encryption keys and current cipher anywhere in the API.
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Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/
Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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