Indicate our desire to be ready participate in authenticated communications.
If we are currently not ready, then steps will be taken to obtain the necessary
certificates. (This includes a certificate for us, as well as any CA certificates
needed to authenticate peers.)
You can call this at program init time if you know that you are going to
be making authenticated connections, so that we will be ready immediately when
those connections are attempted. (Note that essentially all connections require
authentication, with the exception of ordinary UDP connections with authentication
disabled using k_ESteamNetworkingConfig_IP_AllowWithoutAuth.) If you don't call
this function, we will wait until a feature is utilized that that necessitates
these resources.
You can also call this function to force a retry, if failure has occurred.
Once we make an attempt and fail, we will not automatically retry.
In this respect, the behavior of the system after trying and failing is the same
as before the first attempt: attempting authenticated communication or calling
this function will call the system to attempt to acquire the necessary resources.
You can use GetAuthenticationStatus or listen for SteamNetAuthenticationStatus_t
to monitor the status.
Returns the current value that would be returned from GetAuthenticationStatus.
Indicate our desire to be ready participate in authenticated communications. If we are currently not ready, then steps will be taken to obtain the necessary certificates. (This includes a certificate for us, as well as any CA certificates needed to authenticate peers.)
You can call this at program init time if you know that you are going to be making authenticated connections, so that we will be ready immediately when those connections are attempted. (Note that essentially all connections require authentication, with the exception of ordinary UDP connections with authentication disabled using k_ESteamNetworkingConfig_IP_AllowWithoutAuth.) If you don't call this function, we will wait until a feature is utilized that that necessitates these resources.
You can also call this function to force a retry, if failure has occurred. Once we make an attempt and fail, we will not automatically retry. In this respect, the behavior of the system after trying and failing is the same as before the first attempt: attempting authenticated communication or calling this function will call the system to attempt to acquire the necessary resources.
You can use GetAuthenticationStatus or listen for SteamNetAuthenticationStatus_t to monitor the status.
Returns the current value that would be returned from GetAuthenticationStatus.