openssl/doc/man7/EVP_KDF_PBKDF2.pod
Shane Lontis f0efeea29e PBKDF2 updates to conform to SP800-132
The existing code used PKCS5 specifications.
SP800-132 adds the following additional constraints for:
  - the range of the key length.
  - the minimum iteration count (1000 recommended).
  - salt length (at least 128 bits).
These additional constraints may cause errors (in scrypt, and
some PKCS5 related test vectors). To disable the new
constraints use the new ctrl string "pkcs5".
For backwards compatability, the checks are only enabled by
default for fips mode.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8868)
2019-06-11 20:40:07 +10:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
EVP_KDF_PBKDF2 - The PBKDF2 EVP_KDF implementation
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Support for computing the B<PBKDF2> password-based KDF through the B<EVP_KDF>
API.
The EVP_KDF_PBKDF2 algorithm implements the PBKDF2 password-based key
derivation function, as described in SP800-132; it derives a key from a password
using a salt and iteration count.
=head2 Numeric identity
B<EVP_KDF_PBKDF2> is the numeric identity for this implementation; it
can be used with the EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id() function.
=head2 Supported controls
The supported controls are:
=over 4
=item B<EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_PASS>
=item B<EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_SALT>
=item B<EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_ITER>
This control has a default value of 2048.
=item B<EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_MD>
These controls work as described in L<EVP_KDF_CTX(3)/CONTROLS>.
=item B<EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_PBKDF2_PKCS5_MODE>
This control expects one argument: C<int mode>
This control can be used to enable or disable SP800-132 compliance checks.
Setting the mode to 0 enables the compliance checks.
The checks performed are:
=over 4
=item - the iteration count is at least 1000.
=item - the salt length is at least 128 bits.
=item - the derived key length is at least 112 bits.
=back
The default provider uses a default mode of 1 for backwards compatibility,
and the fips provider uses a default mode of 0.
EVP_KDF_ctrl_str() type string: "pkcs5"
The value string is expected to be a decimal number 0 or 1.
=back
=head1 NOTES
A typical application of this algorithm is to derive keying material for an
encryption algorithm from a password in the B<pass>, a salt in B<salt>,
and an iteration count.
Increasing the B<iter> parameter slows down the algorithm which makes it
harder for an attacker to perform a brute force attack using a large number
of candidate passwords.
No assumption is made regarding the given password; it is simply treated as a
byte sequence.
=head1 CONFORMING TO
SP800-132
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<EVP_KDF_CTX>,
L<EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_CTX_free(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_ctrl(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_derive(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_CTX(3)/CONTROLS>
=head1 HISTORY
This functionality was added to OpenSSL 3.0.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2018-2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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