NAME
EVP_VerifyInit_ex,
EVP_VerifyUpdate,
EVP_VerifyFinal,
EVP_VerifyInit —
EVP signature verification
functions
SYNOPSIS
#include
<openssl/evp.h>
int
EVP_VerifyInit_ex(EVP_MD_CTX
*ctx, const EVP_MD *type, ENGINE
*impl);
int
EVP_VerifyUpdate(EVP_MD_CTX
*ctx, const void *d, unsigned
int cnt);
int
EVP_VerifyFinal(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
unsigned char *sigbuf, unsigned int
siglen, EVP_PKEY *pkey);
int
EVP_VerifyInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
const EVP_MD *type);
DESCRIPTION
The EVP signature verification routines are a high level interface to digital signatures.
EVP_VerifyInit_ex()
sets up a verification context ctx to use the digest
type from ENGINE
impl. ctx must be initialized by
calling
EVP_MD_CTX_init(3) before calling this function.
EVP_VerifyUpdate()
hashes cnt bytes of data at d
into the verification context ctx. This function can
be called several times on the same ctx to include
additional data.
EVP_VerifyFinal()
verifies the data in ctx using the public key
pkey and against the siglen
bytes at sigbuf.
EVP_VerifyInit()
initializes a verification context ctx to use the
default implementation of digest type.
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.
The call to
EVP_VerifyFinal()
internally finalizes a copy of the digest context. This means that calls to
EVP_VerifyUpdate() and
EVP_VerifyFinal() can be called later to digest and
verify 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(3), or a memory leak will occur.
RETURN VALUES
EVP_VerifyInit_ex() and
EVP_VerifyUpdate() return 1 for success and 0 for
failure.
EVP_VerifyFinal() returns 1 for a correct
signature, 0 for failure, and -1 if some other error occurred.
The error codes can be obtained by ERR_get_error(3).
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
EVP_VerifyInit(),
EVP_VerifyUpdate(), and
EVP_VerifyFinal() first appeared in SSLeay 0.5.1 and
have been available since OpenBSD 2.4.
EVP_VerifyInit_ex() first appeared in
OpenSSL 0.9.7 and has been available since OpenBSD
3.2.
BUGS
Older versions of this documentation wrongly stated that calls to
EVP_VerifyUpdate() could not be made after calling
EVP_VerifyFinal().
Since the public key is passed in the call to EVP_SignFinal(3), any error relating to the private key (for example an unsuitable key and digest combination) will not be indicated until after potentially large amounts of data have been passed through EVP_SignUpdate(3).
It is not possible to change the signing parameters using these functions.
The previous two bugs are fixed in the newer functions of the EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3) family.