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✨ Authen::Krb5::KeyBlock 💅

okay bestie so this is Authen::Krb5::KeyBlock — it's a Kerberos 5 keyblock object 🎀 like, from the Authen::Krb5 family, documented in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manpage universe. it's giving cryptography but make it object-oriented ✨

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 1.906 — that's the one, that's the vibe, no cap 🫶

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💖 METHODS 💖

okay so here's the whole menu of stuff you can call on a keyblock. four methods. that's it. short and iconic 👑

enctype()

returns the encryption type ID 🔐 like the raw number, the ID itself, not the cute name.

enctype_string()

returns a text description of the encryption type 🦋 so instead of a number you get, like, actual words describing the encryption type. bestie-friendly output fr fr.

length()

returns the length of the session key 📏 that's the length. of the session key. exactly what it says on the tin.

contents()

returns the actual contents of the keyblock — which is, and I cannot stress this enough, the session key 🔑💀 like the whole point of the thing. the real one. the main character.

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Jeff Horwitz <jeff@smashing.org> — thank you king, we appreciate you 🫶✨

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

this software is copyright (c) 2000 by Jeff Horwitz.

it's free software 💚 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go off, but respectfully 🌸

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okay that's literally the whole page, go forth and decode your keyblocks bestie 🧚💜

perl v5.40.1 · 2025-04-11 — mwah, that's the version and the date, documented and dated and everything 💅✨