crypto-box-keypair.1

.TH crypto-box-keypair 1 "October 2010" "nacltools" "NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library"
.SH NAME
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\fBcrypto-box-keypair\fP \- randomly generate a pair of corresponding public and secret keys
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B crypto-box-keypair \fIpublickeyfile\fP \fIsecretkeyfile\fP 
.SH DESCRIPTION
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Randomly generates a pair of public key secret keys to be used by crypto-box(1) and crypto-box-open(1).  
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The public key will be written to the file \fIpublickeyfile\fP 
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The secret key will be written to the file \fIsecretkeyfile\fP
.SH EXIT CODE
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Normally, \fBcrypto-box-keypair\fP exits with \fB0\fP. 
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If invalid arguments are given, \fBcrypto-box-keypair\fP exits with \fB100\fP.
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If either \fIpublickeyfile\fP or \fIsecretkeyfile\fP already exists, or if either refers to an invalid filesystem path, then \fBcrypto-box-keypair\fP exits with \fB111\fP, and neither key is written.
.SH CRYPTOGRAPHY
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This program is a simply a wrapper around the crypto_box_keypair function provided by \fBNaCl\fP, the Networking and Cryptography library by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange. See the official website \fIhttp://nacl.cr.yp.to/\fP for details.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Jay Sullivan <jay@petio.org>
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
crypto-box(1) crypto-box-open(1)