5 DH_set_default_method, DH_get_default_method,
6 DH_set_method, DH_new_method, DH_OpenSSL - select DH method
10 #include <openssl/dh.h>
11 #include <openssl/engine.h>
13 void DH_set_default_method(const DH_METHOD *meth);
15 const DH_METHOD *DH_get_default_method(void);
17 int DH_set_method(DH *dh, const DH_METHOD *meth);
19 DH *DH_new_method(ENGINE *engine);
21 const DH_METHOD *DH_OpenSSL(void);
25 A B<DH_METHOD> specifies the functions that OpenSSL uses for Diffie-Hellman
26 operations. By modifying the method, alternative implementations
27 such as hardware accelerators may be used. IMPORTANT: See the NOTES section for
28 important information about how these DH API functions are affected by the use
29 of B<ENGINE> API calls.
31 Initially, the default DH_METHOD is the OpenSSL internal implementation, as
32 returned by DH_OpenSSL().
34 DH_set_default_method() makes B<meth> the default method for all DH
35 structures created later. B<NB>: This is true only whilst no ENGINE has been set
36 as a default for DH, so this function is no longer recommended.
38 DH_get_default_method() returns a pointer to the current default DH_METHOD.
39 However, the meaningfulness of this result is dependent on whether the ENGINE
40 API is being used, so this function is no longer recommended.
42 DH_set_method() selects B<meth> to perform all operations using the key B<dh>.
43 This will replace the DH_METHOD used by the DH key and if the previous method
44 was supplied by an ENGINE, the handle to that ENGINE will be released during the
45 change. It is possible to have DH keys that only work with certain DH_METHOD
46 implementations (eg. from an ENGINE module that supports embedded
47 hardware-protected keys), and in such cases attempting to change the DH_METHOD
48 for the key can have unexpected results.
50 DH_new_method() allocates and initializes a DH structure so that B<engine> will
51 be used for the DH operations. If B<engine> is NULL, the default ENGINE for DH
52 operations is used, and if no default ENGINE is set, the DH_METHOD controlled by
53 DH_set_default_method() is used.
55 =head1 THE DH_METHOD STRUCTURE
57 typedef struct dh_meth_st
59 /* name of the implementation */
62 /* generate private and public DH values for key agreement */
63 int (*generate_key)(DH *dh);
65 /* compute shared secret */
66 int (*compute_key)(unsigned char *key, BIGNUM *pub_key, DH *dh);
68 /* compute r = a ^ p mod m (May be NULL for some implementations) */
69 int (*bn_mod_exp)(DH *dh, BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
70 const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx,
73 /* called at DH_new */
76 /* called at DH_free */
77 int (*finish)(DH *dh);
81 char *app_data; /* ?? */
87 DH_OpenSSL() and DH_get_default_method() return pointers to the respective
90 DH_set_default_method() returns no value.
92 DH_set_method() returns non-zero if the provided B<meth> was successfully set as
93 the method for B<dh> (including unloading the ENGINE handle if the previous
94 method was supplied by an ENGINE).
96 DH_new_method() returns NULL and sets an error code that can be obtained by
97 L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)> if the allocation fails. Otherwise it
98 returns a pointer to the newly allocated structure.
102 As of version 0.9.7, DH_METHOD implementations are grouped together with other
103 algorithmic APIs (eg. RSA_METHOD, EVP_CIPHER, etc) in B<ENGINE> modules. If a
104 default ENGINE is specified for DH functionality using an ENGINE API function,
105 that will override any DH defaults set using the DH API (ie.
106 DH_set_default_method()). For this reason, the ENGINE API is the recommended way
107 to control default implementations for use in DH and other cryptographic
112 L<dh(3)|dh(3)>, L<DH_new(3)|DH_new(3)>
116 DH_set_default_method(), DH_get_default_method(), DH_set_method(),
117 DH_new_method() and DH_OpenSSL() were added in OpenSSL 0.9.4.
119 DH_set_default_openssl_method() and DH_get_default_openssl_method() replaced
120 DH_set_default_method() and DH_get_default_method() respectively, and
121 DH_set_method() and DH_new_method() were altered to use B<ENGINE>s rather than
122 B<DH_METHOD>s during development of the engine version of OpenSSL 0.9.6. For
123 0.9.7, the handling of defaults in the ENGINE API was restructured so that this
124 change was reversed, and behaviour of the other functions resembled more closely
125 the previous behaviour. The behaviour of defaults in the ENGINE API now
126 transparently overrides the behaviour of defaults in the DH API without
127 requiring changing these function prototypes.