Create Method

Create(ReadOnlyMemory<byte>, PivAlgorithm?)

Create a new instance of a PivPrivateKey from the given encoded value.

C#

public static PivPrivateKey Create(ReadOnlyMemory<byte> encodedPrivateKey, PivAlgorithm? pivAlgorithm = null)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
ReadOnlyMemory<byte>	encodedPrivateKey	The PIV TLV encoding.
PivAlgorithm?	pivAlgorithm

Returns

PivPrivateKey

An instance of a subclass of PivPrivateKey, the actual key represented by the encoding.

Exceptions

Type	Condition
ArgumentException	The key data supplied is not a supported encoding.

Remarks

This will return an instance of either PivRsaPrivateKey or PivEccPrivateKey.