EVP_DigestVerifyInit_ex, EVP_DigestVerifyInit, EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate, EVP_DigestVerifyFinal, EVP_DigestVerify - EVP signature verification functions
#include <openssl/evp.h>
int EVP_DigestVerifyInit_ex(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, EVP_PKEY_CTX **pctx, const char *mdname, const char *props, EVP_PKEY *pkey, EVP_SIGNATURE *signature); int EVP_DigestVerifyInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, EVP_PKEY_CTX **pctx, const EVP_MD *type, ENGINE *e, EVP_PKEY *pkey); int EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const void *d, size_t cnt); int EVP_DigestVerifyFinal(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const unsigned char *sig, size_t siglen); int EVP_DigestVerify(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const 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. Input data is digested first before the signature verification takes place.
EVP_DigestVerifyInit_ex()
sets up verification context ctx to use a digest
with the name mdname and public key pkey. The signature algorithm
signature will be used for the actual signature verification which must be
compatible with the public key. The name of the digest to be used is passed to
the provider of the signature algorithm in use. How that provider interprets the
digest name is provider specific. The provider may implement that digest
directly itself or it may (optionally) choose to fetch it (which could result in
a digest from a different provider being selected). If the provider supports
fetching the digest then it may use the props argument for the properties to
be used during the fetch.
The signature parameter may be NULL in which case a suitable signature algorithm implementation will be implicitly fetched based on the type of key in use. See provider(7) for further information about providers and fetching algorithms.
The OpenSSL default and legacy providers support fetching digests and can fetch those digests from any available provider. The OpenSSL fips provider also supports fetching digests but will only fetch digests that are themselves implemented inside the fips provider.
ctx must be created with EVP_MD_CTX_new()
before calling this function. If
pctx is not NULL, the EVP_PKEY_CTX of the verification operation will be
written to *pctx: this can be used to set alternative verification 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_DigestVerifyInit_ex()
(which
means the EVP_PKEY_CTX is created inside EVP_DigestVerifyInit_ex()
and it will
be freed automatically when the EVP_MD_CTX is freed).
No EVP_PKEY_CTX will be created by EVP_DigestSignInit_ex()
if the passed
ctx has already been assigned one via EVP_MD_CTX_set_pkey_ctx(3). See also
SM2(7).
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_DigestVerifyInit()
works in the same way as EVP_DigestVerifyInit_ex()
except
that the mdname parameter will be inferred from the supplied digest type,
and props will be NULL. Where supplied the ENGINE e will be used for the
signature verification and digest algorithm implementations. e may be NULL.
EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()
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_DigestVerifyFinal()
verifies the data in ctx against the signature in
sig of length siglen.
EVP_DigestVerify()
verifies tbslen bytes at tbs against the signature
in sig of length siglen.
EVP_DigestVerifyInit()
and EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()
return 1 for success and 0
for failure.
EVP_DigestVerifyFinal()
and EVP_DigestVerify()
return 1 for success; any other
value indicates failure. A return value of zero indicates that the signature
did not verify successfully (that is, tbs did not match the original data or
the signature had an invalid form), while other values indicate a more serious
error (and sometimes also indicate an invalid signature form).
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_DigestVerify()
is a one shot operation which verifies a single block of
data in one function. For algorithms that support streaming it is equivalent
to calling EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()
and EVP_DigestVerifyFinal()
. For
algorithms which do not support streaming (e.g. PureEdDSA) it is the only way
to verify 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_DigestVerifyFinal()
internally finalizes a copy of the digest
context. This means that 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()
or a memory leak
will occur.
EVP_DigestSignInit(3), EVP_DigestInit(3), evp(7), HMAC(3), MD2(3), MD5(3), MDC2(3), RIPEMD160(3), SHA1(3), openssl-dgst(1), RAND(7)
EVP_DigestVerifyInit()
, EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()
and EVP_DigestVerifyFinal()
were added in OpenSSL 1.0.0.
EVP_DigestVerifyInit_ex()
was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()
was converted from a macro to a function in OpenSSL
3.0.
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