fc5ecaddd0
While stereotyped repetitions are frowned upon in literature, they serve a useful purpose in manual pages, because it is easier for the user to find certain information if it is always presented in the same way. For that reason, this commit harmonizes the varying formulations in the HISTORY section about which functions, flags, etc. were added in which OpenSSL version. It also attempts to make the pod files more grep friendly by avoiding to insert line breaks between the symbol names and the corresponding version number in which they were introduced (wherever possible). Some punctuation and typographical errors were fixed on the way. Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7854)
99 lines
3.4 KiB
Text
99 lines
3.4 KiB
Text
=pod
|
|
|
|
=head1 NAME
|
|
|
|
X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx, X509_verify, X509_REQ_sign, X509_REQ_sign_ctx,
|
|
X509_REQ_verify, X509_CRL_sign, X509_CRL_sign_ctx, X509_CRL_verify -
|
|
sign or verify certificate, certificate request or CRL signature
|
|
|
|
=head1 SYNOPSIS
|
|
|
|
#include <openssl/x509.h>
|
|
|
|
int X509_sign(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
|
|
int X509_sign_ctx(X509 *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
|
|
int X509_verify(X509 *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
|
|
|
|
int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
|
|
int X509_REQ_sign_ctx(X509_REQ *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
|
|
int X509_REQ_verify(X509_REQ *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
|
|
|
|
int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
|
|
int X509_CRL_sign_ctx(X509_CRL *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
|
|
int X509_CRL_verify(X509_CRL *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
|
|
|
|
=head1 DESCRIPTION
|
|
|
|
X509_sign() signs certificate B<x> using private key B<pkey> and message
|
|
digest B<md> and sets the signature in B<x>. X509_sign_ctx() also signs
|
|
certificate B<x> but uses the parameters contained in digest context B<ctx>.
|
|
|
|
X509_verify() verifies the signature of certificate B<x> using public key
|
|
B<pkey>. Only the signature is checked: no other checks (such as certificate
|
|
chain validity) are performed.
|
|
|
|
X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_verify(),
|
|
X509_CRL_sign(), X509_CRL_sign_ctx() and X509_CRL_verify() sign and verify
|
|
certificate requests and CRLs respectively.
|
|
|
|
=head1 NOTES
|
|
|
|
X509_sign_ctx() is used where the default parameters for the corresponding
|
|
public key and digest are not suitable. It can be used to sign keys using
|
|
RSA-PSS for example.
|
|
|
|
For efficiency reasons and to work around ASN.1 encoding issues the encoding
|
|
of the signed portion of a certificate, certificate request and CRL is cached
|
|
internally. If the signed portion of the structure is modified the encoding
|
|
is not always updated meaning a stale version is sometimes used. This is not
|
|
normally a problem because modifying the signed portion will invalidate the
|
|
signature and signing will always update the encoding.
|
|
|
|
=head1 RETURN VALUES
|
|
|
|
X509_sign(), X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(),
|
|
X509_CRL_sign() and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() return the size of the signature
|
|
in bytes for success and zero for failure.
|
|
|
|
X509_verify(), X509_REQ_verify() and X509_CRL_verify() return 1 if the
|
|
signature is valid and 0 if the signature check fails. If the signature
|
|
could not be checked at all because it was invalid or some other error
|
|
occurred then -1 is returned.
|
|
|
|
=head1 SEE ALSO
|
|
|
|
L<d2i_X509(3)>,
|
|
L<ERR_get_error(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_CRL_get0_by_serial(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_get0_signature(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_get_ext_d2i(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_get_extension_flags(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_get_pubkey(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_get_subject_name(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_get_version(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_object(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_NAME_print_ex(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_new(3)>,
|
|
L<X509V3_get_d2i(3)>,
|
|
L<X509_verify_cert(3)>
|
|
|
|
=head1 HISTORY
|
|
|
|
The X509_sign(), X509_REQ_sign() and X509_CRL_sign() functions are
|
|
available in all versions of OpenSSL.
|
|
|
|
The X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx()
|
|
and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() functions were added OpenSSL 1.0.1.
|
|
|
|
=head1 COPYRIGHT
|
|
|
|
Copyright 2015-2016 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>.
|
|
|
|
=cut
|