RSA_set_method
Section: OpenSSL (3)
Updated: 2017-05-25
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NAME
RSA_set_default_method, RSA_get_default_method, RSA_set_method,
RSA_get_method, RSA_PKCS1_SSLeay, RSA_null_method, RSA_flags,
RSA_new_method - select RSA method
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/rsa.h>
void RSA_set_default_method(const RSA_METHOD *meth);
RSA_METHOD *RSA_get_default_method(void);
int RSA_set_method(RSA *rsa, const RSA_METHOD *meth);
RSA_METHOD *RSA_get_method(const RSA *rsa);
RSA_METHOD *RSA_PKCS1_SSLeay(void);
RSA_METHOD *RSA_null_method(void);
int RSA_flags(const RSA *rsa);
RSA *RSA_new_method(RSA_METHOD *method);
DESCRIPTION
An
RSA_METHOD specifies the functions that OpenSSL uses for
RSA
operations. By modifying the method, alternative implementations such as
hardware accelerators may be used.
IMPORTANT: See the
NOTES section for
important information about how these
RSA API functions are affected by the
use of
ENGINE API calls.
Initially, the default RSA_METHOD is the OpenSSL internal implementation,
as returned by RSA_PKCS1_SSLeay().
RSA_set_default_method() makes meth the default method for all RSA
structures created later. NB: This is true only whilst no ENGINE has
been set as a default for RSA, so this function is no longer recommended.
RSA_get_default_method() returns a pointer to the current default
RSA_METHOD. However, the meaningfulness of this result is dependent on
whether the ENGINE API is being used, so this function is no longer
recommended.
RSA_set_method() selects meth to perform all operations using the key
rsa. This will replace the RSA_METHOD used by the RSA key and if the
previous method was supplied by an ENGINE, the handle to that ENGINE will
be released during the change. It is possible to have RSA keys that only
work with certain RSA_METHOD implementations (eg. from an ENGINE module
that supports embedded hardware-protected keys), and in such cases
attempting to change the RSA_METHOD for the key can have unexpected
results.
RSA_get_method() returns a pointer to the RSA_METHOD being used by rsa.
This method may or may not be supplied by an ENGINE implementation, but if
it is, the return value can only be guaranteed to be valid as long as the
RSA key itself is valid and does not have its implementation changed by
RSA_set_method().
RSA_flags() returns the flags that are set for rsa's current
RSA_METHOD. See the BUGS section.
RSA_new_method() allocates and initializes an RSA structure so that
engine will be used for the RSA operations. If engine is NULL, the
default ENGINE for RSA operations is used, and if no default ENGINE is set,
the RSA_METHOD controlled by RSA_set_default_method() is used.
RSA_flags() returns the flags that are set for rsa's current method.
RSA_new_method() allocates and initializes an RSA structure so that
method will be used for the RSA operations. If method is NULL,
the default method is used.
THE RSA_METHOD STRUCTURE
typedef struct rsa_meth_st
{
/* name of the implementation */
const char *name;
/* encrypt */
int (*rsa_pub_enc)(int flen, unsigned char *from,
unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding);
/* verify arbitrary data */
int (*rsa_pub_dec)(int flen, unsigned char *from,
unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding);
/* sign arbitrary data */
int (*rsa_priv_enc)(int flen, unsigned char *from,
unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding);
/* decrypt */
int (*rsa_priv_dec)(int flen, unsigned char *from,
unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding);
/* compute r0 = r0 ^ I mod rsa->n (May be NULL for some
implementations) */
int (*rsa_mod_exp)(BIGNUM *r0, BIGNUM *I, RSA *rsa);
/* compute r = a ^ p mod m (May be NULL for some implementations) */
int (*bn_mod_exp)(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx, BN_MONT_CTX *m_ctx);
/* called at RSA_new */
int (*init)(RSA *rsa);
/* called at RSA_free */
int (*finish)(RSA *rsa);
/* RSA_FLAG_EXT_PKEY - rsa_mod_exp is called for private key
* operations, even if p,q,dmp1,dmq1,iqmp
* are NULL
* RSA_FLAG_SIGN_VER - enable rsa_sign and rsa_verify
* RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK - don't check pub/private match
*/
int flags;
char *app_data; /* ?? */
/* sign. For backward compatibility, this is used only
* if (flags & RSA_FLAG_SIGN_VER)
*/
int (*rsa_sign)(int type,
const unsigned char *m, unsigned int m_length,
unsigned char *sigret, unsigned int *siglen, const RSA *rsa);
/* verify. For backward compatibility, this is used only
* if (flags & RSA_FLAG_SIGN_VER)
*/
int (*rsa_verify)(int dtype,
const unsigned char *m, unsigned int m_length,
const unsigned char *sigbuf, unsigned int siglen,
const RSA *rsa);
/* keygen. If NULL builtin RSA key generation will be used */
int (*rsa_keygen)(RSA *rsa, int bits, BIGNUM *e, BN_GENCB *cb);
} RSA_METHOD;
RETURN VALUES
RSA_PKCS1_SSLeay(),
RSA_PKCS1_null_method(),
RSA_get_default_method()
and
RSA_get_method() return pointers to the respective RSA_METHODs.
RSA_set_default_method() returns no value.
RSA_set_method() returns a pointer to the old RSA_METHOD implementation
that was replaced. However, this return value should probably be ignored
because if it was supplied by an ENGINE, the pointer could be invalidated
at any time if the ENGINE is unloaded (in fact it could be unloaded as a
result of the RSA_set_method() function releasing its handle to the
ENGINE). For this reason, the return type may be replaced with a void
declaration in a future release.
RSA_new_method() returns NULL and sets an error code that can be obtained
by ERR_get_error(3) if the allocation fails. Otherwise
it returns a pointer to the newly allocated structure.
NOTES
As of version 0.9.7,
RSA_METHOD implementations are grouped together with
other algorithmic APIs (eg.
DSA_METHOD, EVP_CIPHER, etc) into
ENGINE
modules. If a default
ENGINE is specified for
RSA functionality using an
ENGINE API function, that will override any
RSA defaults set using the
RSA
API (ie.
RSA_set_default_method()). For this reason, the
ENGINE API is the
recommended way to control default implementations for use in
RSA and other
cryptographic algorithms.
BUGS
The behaviour of
RSA_flags() is a mis-feature that is left as-is for now
to avoid creating compatibility problems.
RSA functionality, such as the
encryption functions, are controlled by the
flags value in the
RSA key
itself, not by the
flags value in the
RSA_METHOD attached to the
RSA key
(which is what this function returns). If the flags element of an
RSA key
is changed, the changes will be honoured by
RSA functionality but will not
be reflected in the return value of the
RSA_flags() function - in effect
RSA_flags() behaves more like an
RSA_default_flags() function (which does
not currently exist).
SEE ALSO
rsa(3),
RSA_new(3)
HISTORY
RSA_new_method() and
RSA_set_default_method() appeared in SSLeay 0.8.
RSA_get_default_method(),
RSA_set_method() and
RSA_get_method() as
well as the rsa_sign and rsa_verify components of
RSA_METHOD were
added in OpenSSL 0.9.4.
RSA_set_default_openssl_method() and RSA_get_default_openssl_method()
replaced RSA_set_default_method() and RSA_get_default_method()
respectively, and RSA_set_method() and RSA_new_method() were altered to use
ENGINEs rather than RSA_METHODs during development of the engine
version of OpenSSL 0.9.6. For 0.9.7, the handling of defaults in the ENGINE
API was restructured so that this change was reversed, and behaviour of the
other functions resembled more closely the previous behaviour. The
behaviour of defaults in the ENGINE API now transparently overrides the
behaviour of defaults in the RSA API without requiring changing these
function prototypes.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- THE RSA_METHOD STRUCTURE
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- RETURN VALUES
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- NOTES
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- BUGS
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- SEE ALSO
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- HISTORY
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