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137 .IX Title "EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3"
138 .TH EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3 "2014-10-17" "1.0.1n" "OpenSSL"
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144 EVP_DigestVerifyInit, EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate, EVP_DigestVerifyFinal \- EVP signature verification functions
148 .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
150 \& #include <openssl/evp.h>
152 \& int EVP_DigestVerifyInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, EVP_PKEY_CTX **pctx,
153 \& const EVP_MD *type, ENGINE *e, EVP_PKEY *pkey);
154 \& int EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const void *d, unsigned int cnt);
155 \& int EVP_DigestVerifyFinal(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *sig, size_t siglen);
158 .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
159 The \s-1EVP\s0 signature routines are a high level interface to digital signatures.
161 \&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit()\fR sets up verification context \fBctx\fR to use digest
162 \&\fBtype\fR from \s-1ENGINE \s0\fBimpl\fR and public key \fBpkey\fR. \fBctx\fR must be initialized
163 with \fIEVP_MD_CTX_init()\fR before calling this function. If \fBpctx\fR is not \s-1NULL\s0 the
164 \&\s-1EVP_PKEY_CTX\s0 of the verification operation will be written to \fB*pctx\fR: this
165 can be used to set alternative verification options.
167 \&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()\fR hashes \fBcnt\fR bytes of data at \fBd\fR into the
168 verification context \fBctx\fR. This function can be called several times on the
169 same \fBctx\fR to include additional data. This function is currently implemented
172 \&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR verifies the data in \fBctx\fR against the signature in
173 \&\fBsig\fR of length \fBsiglen\fR.
175 .IX Header "RETURN VALUES"
176 \&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit()\fR and \fIEVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()\fR return 1 for success and 0
177 or a negative value for failure. In particular a return value of \-2 indicates
178 the operation is not supported by the public key algorithm.
180 Unlike other functions the return value 0 from \fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR only
181 indicates that the signature did not verify successfully (that is tbs did
182 not match the original data or the signature was of invalid form) it is not an
183 indication of a more serious error.
185 The error codes can be obtained from \fIERR_get_error\fR\|(3).
188 The \fB\s-1EVP\s0\fR interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in
189 preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
190 transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible.
192 In previous versions of OpenSSL there was a link between message digest types
193 and public key algorithms. This meant that \*(L"clone\*(R" digests such as \fIEVP_dss1()\fR
194 needed to be used to sign using \s-1SHA1\s0 and \s-1DSA.\s0 This is no longer necessary and
195 the use of clone digest is now discouraged.
197 For some key types and parameters the random number generator must be seeded
198 or the operation will fail.
200 The call to \fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR internally finalizes a copy of the digest
201 context. This means that \fIEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR and \fIEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR can
202 be called later to digest and verify additional data.
204 Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized the context must
205 be cleaned up after use by calling \fIEVP_MD_CTX_cleanup()\fR or a memory leak
208 .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
209 \&\fIEVP_DigestSignInit\fR\|(3),
210 \&\fIEVP_DigestInit\fR\|(3), \fIopenssl_err\fR\|(3),
211 \&\fIopenssl_evp\fR\|(3), \fIopenssl_hmac\fR\|(3), \fImd2\fR\|(3),
212 \&\fIopenssl_md5\fR\|(3), \fIopenssl_mdc2\fR\|(3), \fIopenssl_ripemd\fR\|(3),
213 \&\fIopenssl_sha\fR\|(3), \fIopenssl_dgst\fR\|(1)
216 \&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit()\fR, \fIEVP_DigestVerifyUpdate()\fR and \fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR
217 were first added to OpenSSL 1.0.0.