sodium_crypto_box_keypair

(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)

sodium_crypto_box_keypair — Randomly generate a secret key and a corresponding public key

sodium_crypto_box_keypair(): string

Generates a secret key and a public key as one string.

To get the secret key out of this unified keypair string, see sodium_crypto_box_secretkey(). To get the public key out of this unified keypair string, see sodium_crypto_box_publickey().

This function has no parameters.

One string containing both the X25519 secret key and corresponding X25519 public key.

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5 years ago

To get the actual public and secret keys, use `sodium_crypto_box_publickey()` and `sodium_crypto_box_secretkey()`.