NetBSD/lib/libcrypto/man/DSA_set_method.3

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.IX Title "DSA_set_method 3"
.TH DSA_set_method 3 "0.9.7b" "2002-10-29" "OpenSSL"
.UC
.SH "NAME"
DSA_set_default_method, DSA_get_default_method,
DSA_set_method, DSA_new_method, DSA_OpenSSL \- select \s-1DSA\s0 method
.SH "LIBRARY"
libcrypto, -lcrypto
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\& #include <openssl/dsa.h>
\& #include <openssl/engine.h>
.Ve
.Vb 1
\& void DSA_set_default_method(const DSA_METHOD *meth);
.Ve
.Vb 1
\& const DSA_METHOD *DSA_get_default_method(void);
.Ve
.Vb 1
\& int DSA_set_method(DSA *dsa, const DSA_METHOD *meth);
.Ve
.Vb 1
\& DSA *DSA_new_method(ENGINE *engine);
.Ve
.Vb 1
\& DSA_METHOD *DSA_OpenSSL(void);
.Ve
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
A \fB\s-1DSA_METHOD\s0\fR specifies the functions that OpenSSL uses for \s-1DSA\s0
operations. By modifying the method, alternative implementations
such as hardware accelerators may be used. \s-1IMPORTANT:\s0 See the \s-1NOTES\s0 section for
important information about how these \s-1DSA\s0 \s-1API\s0 functions are affected by the use
of \fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fR \s-1API\s0 calls.
.PP
Initially, the default \s-1DSA_METHOD\s0 is the OpenSSL internal implementation,
as returned by \fIDSA_OpenSSL()\fR.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_set_default_method()\fR makes \fBmeth\fR the default method for all \s-1DSA\s0
structures created later. \fB\s-1NB\s0\fR: This is true only whilst no \s-1ENGINE\s0 has
been set as a default for \s-1DSA\s0, so this function is no longer recommended.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_get_default_method()\fR returns a pointer to the current default
\&\s-1DSA_METHOD\s0. However, the meaningfulness of this result is dependant on
whether the \s-1ENGINE\s0 \s-1API\s0 is being used, so this function is no longer 
recommended.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_set_method()\fR selects \fBmeth\fR to perform all operations using the key
\&\fBrsa\fR. This will replace the \s-1DSA_METHOD\s0 used by the \s-1DSA\s0 key and if the
previous method was supplied by an \s-1ENGINE\s0, the handle to that \s-1ENGINE\s0 will
be released during the change. It is possible to have \s-1DSA\s0 keys that only
work with certain \s-1DSA_METHOD\s0 implementations (eg. from an \s-1ENGINE\s0 module
that supports embedded hardware-protected keys), and in such cases
attempting to change the \s-1DSA_METHOD\s0 for the key can have unexpected
results.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_new_method()\fR allocates and initializes a \s-1DSA\s0 structure so that \fBengine\fR
will be used for the \s-1DSA\s0 operations. If \fBengine\fR is \s-1NULL\s0, the default engine
for \s-1DSA\s0 operations is used, and if no default \s-1ENGINE\s0 is set, the \s-1DSA_METHOD\s0
controlled by \fIDSA_set_default_method()\fR is used.
.SH "THE DSA_METHOD STRUCTURE"
.IX Header "THE DSA_METHOD STRUCTURE"
struct
 {
     /* name of the implementation */
        const char *name;
.PP
.Vb 3
\&     /* sign */
\&        DSA_SIG *(*dsa_do_sign)(const unsigned char *dgst, int dlen,
\&                                 DSA *dsa);
.Ve
.Vb 3
\&     /* pre-compute k^-1 and r */
\&        int (*dsa_sign_setup)(DSA *dsa, BN_CTX *ctx_in, BIGNUM **kinvp,
\&                                 BIGNUM **rp);
.Ve
.Vb 3
\&     /* verify */
\&        int (*dsa_do_verify)(const unsigned char *dgst, int dgst_len,
\&                                 DSA_SIG *sig, DSA *dsa);
.Ve
.Vb 5
\&     /* compute rr = a1^p1 * a2^p2 mod m (May be NULL for some
\&                                          implementations) */
\&        int (*dsa_mod_exp)(DSA *dsa, BIGNUM *rr, BIGNUM *a1, BIGNUM *p1,
\&                                 BIGNUM *a2, BIGNUM *p2, BIGNUM *m,
\&                                 BN_CTX *ctx, BN_MONT_CTX *in_mont);
.Ve
.Vb 4
\&     /* compute r = a ^ p mod m (May be NULL for some implementations) */
\&        int (*bn_mod_exp)(DSA *dsa, BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a,
\&                                 const BIGNUM *p, const BIGNUM *m,
\&                                 BN_CTX *ctx, BN_MONT_CTX *m_ctx);
.Ve
.Vb 2
\&     /* called at DSA_new */
\&        int (*init)(DSA *DSA);
.Ve
.Vb 2
\&     /* called at DSA_free */
\&        int (*finish)(DSA *DSA);
.Ve
.Vb 1
\&        int flags;
.Ve
.Vb 1
\&        char *app_data; /* ?? */
.Ve
.Vb 1
\& } DSA_METHOD;
.Ve
.SH "RETURN VALUES"
.IX Header "RETURN VALUES"
\&\fIDSA_OpenSSL()\fR and \fIDSA_get_default_method()\fR return pointers to the respective
\&\fB\s-1DSA_METHOD\s0\fRs.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_set_default_method()\fR returns no value.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_set_method()\fR returns non-zero if the provided \fBmeth\fR was successfully set as
the method for \fBdsa\fR (including unloading the \s-1ENGINE\s0 handle if the previous
method was supplied by an \s-1ENGINE\s0).
.PP
\&\fIDSA_new_method()\fR returns \s-1NULL\s0 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.
.SH "NOTES"
.IX Header "NOTES"
As of version 0.9.7, \s-1DSA_METHOD\s0 implementations are grouped together with other
algorithmic APIs (eg. \s-1RSA_METHOD\s0, \s-1EVP_CIPHER\s0, etc) in \fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fR modules. If a
default \s-1ENGINE\s0 is specified for \s-1DSA\s0 functionality using an \s-1ENGINE\s0 \s-1API\s0 function,
that will override any \s-1DSA\s0 defaults set using the \s-1DSA\s0 \s-1API\s0 (ie.
\&\fIDSA_set_default_method()\fR). For this reason, the \s-1ENGINE\s0 \s-1API\s0 is the recommended way
to control default implementations for use in \s-1DSA\s0 and other cryptographic
algorithms.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
openssl_dsa(3), DSA_new(3)
.SH "HISTORY"
.IX Header "HISTORY"
\&\fIDSA_set_default_method()\fR, \fIDSA_get_default_method()\fR, \fIDSA_set_method()\fR,
\&\fIDSA_new_method()\fR and \fIDSA_OpenSSL()\fR were added in OpenSSL 0.9.4.
.PP
\&\fIDSA_set_default_openssl_method()\fR and \fIDSA_get_default_openssl_method()\fR replaced
\&\fIDSA_set_default_method()\fR and \fIDSA_get_default_method()\fR respectively, and
\&\fIDSA_set_method()\fR and \fIDSA_new_method()\fR were altered to use \fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fRs rather than
\&\fB\s-1DSA_METHOD\s0\fRs during development of the engine version of OpenSSL 0.9.6. For
0.9.7, the handling of defaults in the \s-1ENGINE\s0 \s-1API\s0 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 \s-1ENGINE\s0 \s-1API\s0 now
transparently overrides the behaviour of defaults in the \s-1DSA\s0 \s-1API\s0 without
requiring changing these function prototypes.