The CryptoKey class

The xml.CryptoKey class provides methods to manipulate HMAC, symmetric and asymmetric keys needed for signing, verifying, encrypting and decrypting XML documents or document fragments.

This class is provided in the xml C-Extension library; To use this class, import the xml package with:

IMPORT xml

It follows the XML-Signature and XML-Encryption specifications.

The status variable is set to zero after a successful method call.