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=head1 NAME
evp - high-level cryptographic functions
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/evp.h>
=head1 DESCRIPTION
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The EVP library provides a high-level interface to cryptographic
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functions.
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L<B<EVP_Seal>I<...>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Open>I<...>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>
provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes".
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The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<...>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and
L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<...>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement
digital signatures and Message Authentication Codes (MACs). Also see the older
L<B<EVP_Sign>I<...>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Verify>I<...>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>
functions.
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Symmetric encryption is available with the L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<...>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>
functions. The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<...>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests.
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The B<EVP_PKEY>I<...> functions provide a high level interface to
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asymmetric algorithms. To create a new EVP_PKEY see
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L<EVP_PKEY_new(3)>. EVP_PKEYs can be associated
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with a private key of a particular algorithm by using the functions
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described on the L<EVP_PKEY_set1_RSA(3)> page, or
new keys can be generated using L<EVP_PKEY_keygen(3)>.
EVP_PKEYs can be compared using L<EVP_PKEY_cmp(3)>, or printed using
L<EVP_PKEY_print_private(3)>.
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The EVP_PKEY functions support the full range of asymmetric algorithm operations:
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=over
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=item For key agreement see L<EVP_PKEY_derive(3)>
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=item For signing and verifying see L<EVP_PKEY_sign(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_verify(3)> and L<EVP_PKEY_verify_recover(3)>.
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However, note that
these functions do not perform a digest of the data to be signed. Therefore
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normally you would use the L<EVP_DigestSignInit(3)>
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functions for this purpose.
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=item For encryption and decryption see L<EVP_PKEY_encrypt(3)>
and L<EVP_PKEY_decrypt(3)> respectively. However, note that
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these functions perform encryption and decryption only. As public key
encryption is an expensive operation, normally you would wrap
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an encrypted message in a "digital envelope" using the L<EVP_SealInit(3)> and
L<EVP_OpenInit(3)> functions.
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=back
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The L<EVP_BytesToKey(3)> function provides some limited support for password
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based encryption. Careful selection of the parameters will provide a PKCS#5 PBKDF1 compatible
implementation. However, new applications should not typically use this (preferring, for example,
PBKDF2 from PCKS#5).
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Algorithms are loaded with L<OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(3)>.
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All the symmetric algorithms (ciphers), digests and asymmetric algorithms
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(public key algorithms) can be replaced by L<engine(3)> modules providing alternative
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implementations. If ENGINE implementations of ciphers or digests are registered
as defaults, then the various EVP functions will automatically use those
implementations automatically in preference to built in software
implementations. For more information, consult the engine(3) man page.
Although low level algorithm specific functions exist for many algorithms
their use is discouraged. They cannot be used with an ENGINE and ENGINE
versions of new algorithms cannot be accessed using the low level functions.
Also makes code harder to adapt to new algorithms and some options are not
cleanly supported at the low level and some operations are more efficient
using the high level interface.
These are updates/fixes to DH/DSA/RAND docs based on the fixes to the RSA docs. There were a couple of other places (including RSA) where the docs were not quite synchronised with the API that are now fixed. One or two still remain to be fixed though ...
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<EVP_DigestInit(3)>,
L<EVP_EncryptInit(3)>,
L<EVP_OpenInit(3)>,
L<EVP_SealInit(3)>,
L<EVP_DigestSignInit(3)>,
L<EVP_SignInit(3)>,
L<EVP_VerifyInit(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_new(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_set1_RSA(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_keygen(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_print_private(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_decrypt(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_encrypt(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_sign(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_verify(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_verify_recover(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_derive(3)>,
L<EVP_BytesToKey(3)>,
L<OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(3)>,
L<engine(3)>
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