HMACKEYS(1)

📦 version 3.2.1, in ubuntu jammy

💖 HMACKEYS(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the hmackeys page — it's living in section 1 of the BP executables manual, and it's literally the girlboss of symmetric key generation. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

hmackeys — a utility program for generating good HMAC-SHA1 keys 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hmackeys [ keynames_filename ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: hmackeys writes files that contain randomized 160-bit key values, and those keys are suitable for use by HMAC-SHA1 in support of Bundle Authentication Block processing, Bundle Relay Service connections, or literally any other functions where symmetric hash computation is applicable. it's giving cryptographic main character energy 🔥

one file gets written for each key name you hand over to hmackeys. the content of each file is 20 consecutive randomly selected 8-bit integer values, and the name given to each file is simply keyname.hmk. periodt 💅

hmackeys operates in response to the key names it finds in the file keynames_filename — one name per file text line — if that file is provided. if it's not provided, hmackeys prints a simple prompt (:) so you can type key names directly into standard input. lowkey iconic.

when the program is run in interactive mode, either enter q or press ^C to terminate. 🫶

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

  • "0" — completion of key generation. slay. ✨

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

  • hmackeys enter interactive HMAC/SHA1 key generation mode. let's goooo 🧚
  • hmackeys host1.keynames create a key file for each key name in host1.keynames, then terminate immediately. no thoughts, just keys 🔑

💜 FILES 💜

no other files are used in the operation of hmackeys. that's it, that's the whole list 🙈

🍓 ENVIRONMENT 🍓

no environment variables apply. nothing to see here bestie, the env is clean ✨

👑 DIAGNOSTICS 👑

the following diagnostics may be issued to the logfile ion.log:

  • Can't open keynames file... the keynames_filename specified in the command line doesn't exist. 😭 (double-check your path, queen)

💀 BUGS 💀

report bugs to <ion-bugs@korgano.eecs.ohiou.edu> — yes, actually tell them, they wanna know fr fr

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

brsscla(1), ionsecadmin(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's from perl v5.24.1, dated 2016-07-07 — an absolute classic, vintage but still ate. mwah 🎀✨

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