Class: Defuse\Crypto\Key
=========================

The `Key` class represents a secret key used for encrypting and decrypting. Once
you have a `Key` instance, you can use it with the `Crypto` class to encrypt and
decrypt strings and with the `File` class to encrypt and decrypt files.

Instance Methods
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### saveToAsciiSafeString()

**Description:**

Saves the encryption key to a string of printable ASCII characters, which can be
loaded again into a `Key` instance using `Key::loadFromAsciiSafeString()`.

**Parameters:**

This method does not take any parameters.

**Return value:**

Returns a string of printable ASCII characters representing this `Key` instance,
which can be loaded back into an instance of `Key` using
`Key::loadFromAsciiSafeString()`.

**Exceptions:**

- `Defuse\Crypto\Exception\EnvironmentIsBrokenException` is thrown either when
  the platform the code is running on cannot safely perform encryption for some
  reason (e.g. it lacks a secure random number generator), or the runtime tests
  detected a bug in this library.

**Side-effects and performance:**

None.

**Cautions:**

This method currently returns a hexadecimal string. You should not rely on this
behavior. For example, it may be improved in the future to return a base64
string.

Static Methods
---------------

### Key::createNewRandomKey()

**Description:**

Generates a new random key and returns an instance of `Key`.

**Parameters:**

This method does not take any parameters.

**Return value:**

Returns an instance of `Key` containing a randomly-generated encryption key.

**Exceptions:**

- `Defuse\Crypto\Exception\EnvironmentIsBrokenException` is thrown either when
  the platform the code is running on cannot safely perform encryption for some
  reason (e.g. it lacks a secure random number generator), or the runtime tests
  detected a bug in this library.

**Side-effects and performance:**

None.

**Cautions:**

None.

### Key::loadFromAsciiSafeString($saved\_key\_string, $do\_not\_trim = false)

**Description:**

Loads an instance of `Key` that was saved to a string by
`saveToAsciiSafeString()`.

By default, this function will call `Encoding::trimTrailingWhitespace()`
to remove trailing CR, LF, NUL, TAB, and SPACE characters, which are commonly
appended to files when working with text editors.

**Parameters:**

1. `$saved_key_string` is the string returned from `saveToAsciiSafeString()`
   when the original `Key` instance was saved.
2. `$do_not_trim` should be set to `TRUE` if you do not wish for the library
   to automatically strip trailing whitespace from the string. 

**Return value:**

Returns an instance of `Key` representing the same encryption key as the one
that was represented by the `Key` instance that got saved into
`$saved_key_string` by a call to `saveToAsciiSafeString()`.

**Exceptions:**

- `Defuse\Crypto\Exception\EnvironmentIsBrokenException` is thrown either when
  the platform the code is running on cannot safely perform encryption for some
  reason (e.g. it lacks a secure random number generator), or the runtime tests
  detected a bug in this library.

- `Defuse\Crypto\Exception\BadFormatException` is thrown whenever
  `$saved_key_string` does not represent a valid `Key` instance.

**Side-effects and performance:**

None.

**Cautions:**

None.

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