Developer's Guide to Oracle® Solaris 11 Security

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Oracle Solaris Key Management Framework Example Application

The pktool application is an excellent example of how to use the KMF APIs.

This section shows a simple application that uses KMF. This section describes the basic steps that an application needs to take in order to perform some KMF operations. This example assumes that you have experience in C programming and a basic understanding of public key technologies and standards. This example goes through the steps of initializing KMF for use and then creates a self-signed X.509v3 certificate and associated RSA key pair. This example also shows how to use the KMF-enhanced pktool command to verify that the application was successful.