EVP_DigestSignInit, EVP_DigestSignUpdate, EVP_DigestSignFinal, EVP_DigestSign - EVP signing functions
#include <openssl/evp.h>
int EVP_DigestSignInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, EVP_PKEY_CTX **pctx, const EVP_MD *type, ENGINE *e, EVP_PKEY *pkey); int EVP_DigestSignUpdate(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const void *d, size_t cnt); int EVP_DigestSignFinal(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *sig, size_t *siglen);
int EVP_DigestSign(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *sigret, size_t *siglen, const unsigned char *tbs, size_t tbslen);
The EVP signature routines are a high level interface to digital signatures.
EVP_DigestSignInit()
sets up signing context ctx to use digest type from
ENGINE e and private key pkey. ctx must be created with
EVP_MD_CTX_new()
before calling this function. If pctx is not NULL, the
EVP_PKEY_CTX of the signing operation will be written to *pctx: this can
be used to set alternative signing options. Note that any existing value in
*pctx is overwritten. The EVP_PKEY_CTX value returned must not be freed
directly by the application if ctx is not assigned an EVP_PKEY_CTX value before
being passed to EVP_DigestSignInit()
(which means the EVP_PKEY_CTX is created
inside EVP_DigestSignInit()
and it will be freed automatically when the
EVP_MD_CTX is freed).
The digest type may be NULL if the signing algorithm supports it.
No EVP_PKEY_CTX will be created by EVP_DigestSignInit()
if the passed ctx
has already been assigned one via EVP_MD_CTX_set_pkey_ctx(3). See also SM2(7).
Only EVP_PKEY types that support signing can be used with these functions. This includes MAC algorithms where the MAC generation is considered as a form of "signing". Built-in EVP_PKEY types supported by these functions are CMAC, Poly1305, DSA, ECDSA, HMAC, RSA, SipHash, Ed25519 and Ed448.
Not all digests can be used for all key types. The following combinations apply.
Supports SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512
Supports SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 and SM3
Supports no digests (the digest type must be NULL)
Supports SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512
Support SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, MD5, MD5_SHA1, MD2, MD4, MDC2, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512
Support no digests (the digest type must be NULL)
Supports any digest
Will ignore any digest provided.
If RSA-PSS is used and restrictions apply then the digest must match.
EVP_DigestSignUpdate()
hashes cnt bytes of data at d into the
signature context ctx. This function can be called several times on the
same ctx to include additional data. This function is currently implemented
using a macro.
EVP_DigestSignFinal()
signs the data in ctx and places the signature in sig.
If sig is NULL then the maximum size of the output buffer is written to
the siglen parameter. If sig is not NULL then before the call the
siglen parameter should contain the length of the sig buffer. If the
call is successful the signature is written to sig and the amount of data
written to siglen.
EVP_DigestSign()
signs tbslen bytes of data at tbs and places the
signature in sig and its length in siglen in a similar way to
EVP_DigestSignFinal()
.
EVP_DigestSignInit()
, EVP_DigestSignUpdate()
, EVP_DigestSignFinal()
and
EVP_DigestSign()
return 1 for success and 0 for failure.
The error codes can be obtained from ERR_get_error(3).
The EVP interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible.
EVP_DigestSign()
is a one shot operation which signs a single block of data
in one function. For algorithms that support streaming it is equivalent to
calling EVP_DigestSignUpdate()
and EVP_DigestSignFinal()
. For algorithms which
do not support streaming (e.g. PureEdDSA) it is the only way to sign data.
In previous versions of OpenSSL there was a link between message digest types and public key algorithms. This meant that "clone" digests such as EVP_dss1() needed to be used to sign using SHA1 and DSA. This is no longer necessary and the use of clone digest is now discouraged.
For some key types and parameters the random number generator must be seeded. If the automatic seeding or reseeding of the OpenSSL CSPRNG fails due to external circumstances (see RAND(7)), the operation will fail.
The call to EVP_DigestSignFinal()
internally finalizes a copy of the digest
context. This means that calls to EVP_DigestSignUpdate()
and
EVP_DigestSignFinal()
can be called later to digest and sign additional data.
Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized, the context must
be cleaned up after use by calling EVP_MD_CTX_free()
or a memory leak
will occur.
The use of EVP_PKEY_size()
with these functions is discouraged because some
signature operations may have a signature length which depends on the
parameters set. As a result EVP_PKEY_size()
would have to return a value
which indicates the maximum possible signature for any set of parameters.
EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3), EVP_DigestInit(3), evp(7), HMAC(3), MD2(3), MD5(3), MDC2(3), RIPEMD160(3), SHA1(3), dgst(1), RAND(7)
EVP_DigestSignInit()
, EVP_DigestSignUpdate()
and EVP_DigestSignFinal()
were added in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
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