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<task id="GUID-85EAD2EA-6ADB-5866-9784-5E2B30E661AF" xml:lang="en"><title>Deleting

Keys </title><shortdesc>This section provides information on deleting keys. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<context><p>The unified keystore allows the deletion of any key. The following

steps explain the process of deleting a key: </p></context>

<steps id="GUID-AFEDFA3B-FA51-5BF8-87A5-7E5DCD3C8D95">

<step id="GUID-42688893-8588-5CF6-8F6C-959AA0495222"><cmd/>

<info>Create a file system session using an <xref href="GUID-E263C747-946F-35AA-9F1D-41833BD350FC.dita"><apiname>RFs</apiname></xref> object. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-CAE0DEDF-139F-52C3-9D3A-A2BD14CFA621"><cmd/>

<info>Create an object of type CUnifiedKeyStore using <xref href="GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE.dita#GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE/GUID-C7A96153-4179-3B3F-878D-1EAA64A98D39"><apiname>CUnifiedKeyStore::NewL()</apiname></xref> or <xref href="GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE.dita#GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE/GUID-217FBB3B-CEF5-36F2-A612-EDDA0982053C"><apiname>CUnifiedKeyStore::NewLC()</apiname></xref>. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-4F4C4296-50F5-593F-AA89-8FA043FA9908"><cmd/>

<info>Initialise the member functions and keystore using the asynchronous

function <xref href="GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE.dita#GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE/GUID-6C5D732C-1FD1-3EF0-AC90-87690F891B8D"><apiname>CUnifiedKeyStore::Initialize()</apiname></xref>. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-19E5AAF5-1402-51F9-AE95-0970F286EF1C"><cmd/>

<info>Use the <xref href="GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE.dita#GUID-818689D6-EB99-382E-A435-D9C6C5D464DE/GUID-8B22E1BC-D779-32DC-9C0A-CA37E4C0A81B"><apiname>CUnifiedKeyStore::List()</apiname></xref> function to list

the keys of the keystore. Retrieve the handle of the key to be deleted. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-435FCA01-D219-5BE3-B425-B4530F4C7F36"><cmd>Use the <codeph>CUnifiedKeyStore::DeleteKey()</codeph> function

to delete the key. </cmd>

</step>

</steps>

<result><p>The selected key is deleted from the keystore. </p> </result>

<example><title>Example</title> <p>The following code snippet shows how to

initialise the unified keystore, list the keys in a keystore, select a particular

key and delete it. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-C18C5FBD-400F-5DFB-8E02-916F5C8C11FA" xml:space="preserve">//Create a file system session object

RFs iFs;

CleanupClosePushL(&iFs);

//Initialise the keystore and member functions

CUnifiedKeyStore* keyStore = CUnifiedKeyStore::NewL(iFs);

keyStore->Initialize(iStatus); //iStatus is a TRequestStatus object

//List the keys of the keystore

RPointerArray<CCTKeyInfo> iKeys; // This variable will contain the key for deletion

TCTKeyAttributeFilter  filter.iUsage = EPKCS15UsageAll;

keyStore->List(iKeys, filter, iStatus);

...

//Retrieve the handle of the key to be deleted

_LIT(KLabel,”keylabel”);

//Select the key with the label you are looking for

for (TInt j = 0; j < iKeys.Count(); j++)

    {

    if (Keys[j]->Label() == KLabel) 

        {

         keyIndex = j;

         break;

        }

    }

...

//Delete the selected key

keyStore->DeleteKey(*iKeys[keyIndex], iStatus);

//Clean up

CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // iFs</codeblock> </example>

</taskbody><related-links>

<link href="GUID-C4389D60-2A8D-532D-9D92-E57B0CCD14CF.dita"><linktext>Unified Keystore</linktext>

</link>

</related-links></task>