Can the Akismet API key be pulled from the plugin?

After reading several articles, discussing with the community, diving through the Akismet documentation and reviewing their plugin I’ve found if you want test to see if the plugin is active or deactivate you can use:

if (function_exists('akismet_verify_key')) :
    echo "true";
else :
    echo "false";
endif;

After activating the plugin and entering the API key in the plugin you can call on the key with akismet_get_key:

if (function_exists('akismet_verify_key') && !empty(akismet_get_key())) :
    echo akismet_get_key(); // only for testing purposes!
else: 
    echo 'false';
endif;

Hope the next person finds this information useful.