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Title "EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
EVP_DigestVerifyInit, EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate, EVP_DigestVerifyFinal - EVP signature verification functions Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 #include <openssl/evp.h> \& int EVP_DigestVerifyInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, EVP_PKEY_CTX **pctx, const EVP_MD *type, ENGINE *e, EVP_PKEY *pkey); int EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const void *d, unsigned int cnt); int EVP_DigestVerifyFinal(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *sig, size_t siglen); .Ve Header "DESCRIPTION" The \s-1EVP\s0 signature routines are a high level interface to digital signatures.

\fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit() sets up verification context ctx to use digest \fBtype from \s-1ENGINE\s0 impl and public key pkey. ctx must be initialized with EVP_MD_CTX_init() before calling this function. If pctx is not \s-1NULL\s0 the \s-1EVP_PKEY_CTX\s0 of the verification operation will be written to *pctx: this can be used to set alternative verification options.

\fIEVP_DigestVerifyUpdate() hashes cnt bytes of data at d into the verification context ctx. This function can be called several times on the same ctx to include additional data. This function is currently implemented using a macro.

\fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal() verifies the data in ctx against the signature in \fBsig of length siglen.

Header "RETURN VALUES" \fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit() and EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate() return 1 for success and 0 or a negative value for failure. In particular a return value of -2 indicates the operation is not supported by the public key algorithm.

Unlike other functions the return value 0 from EVP_DigestVerifyFinal() only indicates that the signature did not not verify successfully (that is tbs did not match the original data or the signature was of invalid form) it is not an indication of a more serious error.

The error codes can be obtained from ERR_get_error\|(3).

Header "NOTES" The \s-1EVP\s0 interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible.

In previous versions of OpenSSL there was a link between message digest types and public key algorithms. This meant that \*(L"clone\*(R" digests such as EVP_dss1() needed to be used to sign using \s-1SHA1\s0 and \s-1DSA\s0. This is no longer necessary and the use of clone digest is now discouraged.

For some key types and parameters the random number generator must be seeded or the operation will fail.

The call to EVP_DigestVerifyFinal() internally finalizes a copy of the digest context. This means that calls to EVP_VerifyUpdate() and EVP_VerifyFinal() can be called later to digest and verify additional data.

Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized the context must be cleaned up after use by calling EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup() or a memory leak will occur.

Header "SEE ALSO" \fIEVP_DigestSignInit\|(3), \fIEVP_DigestInit\|(3), err\|(3), \fIevp\|(3), hmac\|(3), md2\|(3), \fImd5\|(3), mdc2\|(3), ripemd\|(3), \fIsha\|(3), dgst\|(1) Header "HISTORY" \fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit(), EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate() and EVP_DigestVerifyFinal() were first added to OpenSSL 1.0.0.