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-.\" ========================================================================
-.\"
-.IX Title "engine 3"
-.TH engine 3 "2018-08-14" "1.0.2p" "OpenSSL"
-.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
-.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
-.if n .ad l
-.nh
-.SH "NAME"
-engine \- ENGINE cryptographic module support
-.SH "SYNOPSIS"
-.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
-.Vb 1
-\& #include <openssl/engine.h>
-\&
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_first(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_last(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_next(ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_prev(ENGINE *e);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_add(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_remove(ENGINE *e);
-\&
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_by_id(const char *id);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_init(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_finish(ENGINE *e);
-\&
-\& void ENGINE_load_openssl(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_dynamic(void);
-\& #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE
-\& void ENGINE_load_4758cca(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_aep(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_atalla(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_chil(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_cswift(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_gmp(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_nuron(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_sureware(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_ubsec(void);
-\& #endif
-\& void ENGINE_load_cryptodev(void);
-\& void ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(void);
-\&
-\& void ENGINE_cleanup(void);
-\&
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_default_RSA(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_default_DSA(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_default_ECDH(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_default_ECDSA(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_default_DH(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_default_RAND(void);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_cipher_engine(int nid);
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_get_digest_engine(int nid);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_RSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_DSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_ECDH(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_ECDSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_DH(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_RAND(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_ciphers(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_digests(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_set_default_string(ENGINE *e, const char *list);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_set_default(ENGINE *e, unsigned int flags);
-\&
-\& unsigned int ENGINE_get_table_flags(void);
-\& void ENGINE_set_table_flags(unsigned int flags);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_register_RSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_RSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_RSA(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_DSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_DSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_DSA(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_ECDH(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_ECDH(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_ECDH(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_ECDSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_ECDSA(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_ECDSA(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_DH(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_DH(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_DH(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_RAND(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_RAND(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_RAND(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_STORE(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_STORE(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_STORE(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_ciphers(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_ciphers(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_ciphers(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_digests(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_unregister_digests(ENGINE *e);
-\& void ENGINE_register_all_digests(void);
-\& int ENGINE_register_complete(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_register_all_complete(void);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_ctrl(ENGINE *e, int cmd, long i, void *p, void (*f)(void));
-\& int ENGINE_cmd_is_executable(ENGINE *e, int cmd);
-\& int ENGINE_ctrl_cmd(ENGINE *e, const char *cmd_name,
-\& long i, void *p, void (*f)(void), int cmd_optional);
-\& int ENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string(ENGINE *e, const char *cmd_name, const char *arg,
-\& int cmd_optional);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_set_ex_data(ENGINE *e, int idx, void *arg);
-\& void *ENGINE_get_ex_data(const ENGINE *e, int idx);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_get_ex_new_index(long argl, void *argp, CRYPTO_EX_new *new_func,
-\& CRYPTO_EX_dup *dup_func, CRYPTO_EX_free *free_func);
-\&
-\& ENGINE *ENGINE_new(void);
-\& int ENGINE_free(ENGINE *e);
-\& int ENGINE_up_ref(ENGINE *e);
-\&
-\& int ENGINE_set_id(ENGINE *e, const char *id);
-\& int ENGINE_set_name(ENGINE *e, const char *name);
-\& int ENGINE_set_RSA(ENGINE *e, const RSA_METHOD *rsa_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_DSA(ENGINE *e, const DSA_METHOD *dsa_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_ECDH(ENGINE *e, const ECDH_METHOD *dh_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_ECDSA(ENGINE *e, const ECDSA_METHOD *dh_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_DH(ENGINE *e, const DH_METHOD *dh_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_RAND(ENGINE *e, const RAND_METHOD *rand_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_STORE(ENGINE *e, const STORE_METHOD *rand_meth);
-\& int ENGINE_set_destroy_function(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_GEN_INT_FUNC_PTR destroy_f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_init_function(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_GEN_INT_FUNC_PTR init_f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_finish_function(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_GEN_INT_FUNC_PTR finish_f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_ctrl_function(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_CTRL_FUNC_PTR ctrl_f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_load_privkey_function(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_LOAD_KEY_PTR loadpriv_f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_load_pubkey_function(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_LOAD_KEY_PTR loadpub_f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_ciphers(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_CIPHERS_PTR f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_digests(ENGINE *e, ENGINE_DIGESTS_PTR f);
-\& int ENGINE_set_flags(ENGINE *e, int flags);
-\& int ENGINE_set_cmd_defns(ENGINE *e, const ENGINE_CMD_DEFN *defns);
-\&
-\& const char *ENGINE_get_id(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const char *ENGINE_get_name(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const RSA_METHOD *ENGINE_get_RSA(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const DSA_METHOD *ENGINE_get_DSA(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const ECDH_METHOD *ENGINE_get_ECDH(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const ECDSA_METHOD *ENGINE_get_ECDSA(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const DH_METHOD *ENGINE_get_DH(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const RAND_METHOD *ENGINE_get_RAND(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const STORE_METHOD *ENGINE_get_STORE(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_GEN_INT_FUNC_PTR ENGINE_get_destroy_function(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_GEN_INT_FUNC_PTR ENGINE_get_init_function(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_GEN_INT_FUNC_PTR ENGINE_get_finish_function(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_CTRL_FUNC_PTR ENGINE_get_ctrl_function(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_LOAD_KEY_PTR ENGINE_get_load_privkey_function(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_LOAD_KEY_PTR ENGINE_get_load_pubkey_function(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_CIPHERS_PTR ENGINE_get_ciphers(const ENGINE *e);
-\& ENGINE_DIGESTS_PTR ENGINE_get_digests(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const EVP_CIPHER *ENGINE_get_cipher(ENGINE *e, int nid);
-\& const EVP_MD *ENGINE_get_digest(ENGINE *e, int nid);
-\& int ENGINE_get_flags(const ENGINE *e);
-\& const ENGINE_CMD_DEFN *ENGINE_get_cmd_defns(const ENGINE *e);
-\&
-\& EVP_PKEY *ENGINE_load_private_key(ENGINE *e, const char *key_id,
-\& UI_METHOD *ui_method, void *callback_data);
-\& EVP_PKEY *ENGINE_load_public_key(ENGINE *e, const char *key_id,
-\& UI_METHOD *ui_method, void *callback_data);
-\&
-\& void ENGINE_add_conf_module(void);
-.Ve
-.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
-These functions create, manipulate, and use cryptographic modules in the
-form of \fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fR objects. These objects act as containers for
-implementations of cryptographic algorithms, and support a
-reference-counted mechanism to allow them to be dynamically loaded in and
-out of the running application.
-.PP
-The cryptographic functionality that can be provided by an \fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fR
-implementation includes the following abstractions;
-.PP
-.Vb 6
-\& RSA_METHOD \- for providing alternative RSA implementations
-\& DSA_METHOD, DH_METHOD, RAND_METHOD, ECDH_METHOD, ECDSA_METHOD,
-\& STORE_METHOD \- similarly for other OpenSSL APIs
-\& EVP_CIPHER \- potentially multiple cipher algorithms (indexed by \*(Aqnid\*(Aq)
-\& EVP_DIGEST \- potentially multiple hash algorithms (indexed by \*(Aqnid\*(Aq)
-\& key\-loading \- loading public and/or private EVP_PKEY keys
-.Ve
-.SS "Reference counting and handles"
-.IX Subsection "Reference counting and handles"
-Due to the modular nature of the \s-1ENGINE API,\s0 pointers to ENGINEs need to be
-treated as handles \- ie. not only as pointers, but also as references to
-the underlying \s-1ENGINE\s0 object. Ie. one should obtain a new reference when
-making copies of an \s-1ENGINE\s0 pointer if the copies will be used (and
-released) independently.
-.PP
-\&\s-1ENGINE\s0 objects have two levels of reference-counting to match the way in
-which the objects are used. At the most basic level, each \s-1ENGINE\s0 pointer is
-inherently a \fBstructural\fR reference \- a structural reference is required
-to use the pointer value at all, as this kind of reference is a guarantee
-that the structure can not be deallocated until the reference is released.
-.PP
-However, a structural reference provides no guarantee that the \s-1ENGINE\s0 is
-initialised and able to use any of its cryptographic
-implementations. Indeed it's quite possible that most ENGINEs will not
-initialise at all in typical environments, as ENGINEs are typically used to
-support specialised hardware. To use an \s-1ENGINE\s0's functionality, you need a
-\&\fBfunctional\fR reference. This kind of reference can be considered a
-specialised form of structural reference, because each functional reference
-implicitly contains a structural reference as well \- however to avoid
-difficult-to-find programming bugs, it is recommended to treat the two
-kinds of reference independently. If you have a functional reference to an
-\&\s-1ENGINE,\s0 you have a guarantee that the \s-1ENGINE\s0 has been initialised and
-is ready to perform cryptographic operations, and will remain initialised
-until after you have released your reference.
-.PP
-\&\fIStructural references\fR
-.PP
-This basic type of reference is used for instantiating new ENGINEs,
-iterating across OpenSSL's internal linked-list of loaded
-ENGINEs, reading information about an \s-1ENGINE,\s0 etc. Essentially a structural
-reference is sufficient if you only need to query or manipulate the data of
-an \s-1ENGINE\s0 implementation rather than use its functionality.
-.PP
-The \fIENGINE_new()\fR function returns a structural reference to a new (empty)
-\&\s-1ENGINE\s0 object. There are other \s-1ENGINE API\s0 functions that return structural
-references such as; \fIENGINE_by_id()\fR, \fIENGINE_get_first()\fR, \fIENGINE_get_last()\fR,
-\&\fIENGINE_get_next()\fR, \fIENGINE_get_prev()\fR. All structural references should be
-released by a corresponding to call to the \fIENGINE_free()\fR function \- the
-\&\s-1ENGINE\s0 object itself will only actually be cleaned up and deallocated when
-the last structural reference is released.
-.PP
-It should also be noted that many \s-1ENGINE API\s0 function calls that accept a
-structural reference will internally obtain another reference \- typically
-this happens whenever the supplied \s-1ENGINE\s0 will be needed by OpenSSL after
-the function has returned. Eg. the function to add a new \s-1ENGINE\s0 to
-OpenSSL's internal list is \fIENGINE_add()\fR \- if this function returns success,
-then OpenSSL will have stored a new structural reference internally so the
-caller is still responsible for freeing their own reference with
-\&\fIENGINE_free()\fR when they are finished with it. In a similar way, some
-functions will automatically release the structural reference passed to it
-if part of the function's job is to do so. Eg. the \fIENGINE_get_next()\fR and
-\&\fIENGINE_get_prev()\fR functions are used for iterating across the internal
-\&\s-1ENGINE\s0 list \- they will return a new structural reference to the next (or
-previous) \s-1ENGINE\s0 in the list or \s-1NULL\s0 if at the end (or beginning) of the
-list, but in either case the structural reference passed to the function is
-released on behalf of the caller.
-.PP
-To clarify a particular function's handling of references, one should
-always consult that function's documentation \*(L"man\*(R" page, or failing that
-the openssl/engine.h header file includes some hints.
-.PP
-\&\fIFunctional references\fR
-.PP
-As mentioned, functional references exist when the cryptographic
-functionality of an \s-1ENGINE\s0 is required to be available. A functional
-reference can be obtained in one of two ways; from an existing structural
-reference to the required \s-1ENGINE,\s0 or by asking OpenSSL for the default
-operational \s-1ENGINE\s0 for a given cryptographic purpose.
-.PP
-To obtain a functional reference from an existing structural reference,
-call the \fIENGINE_init()\fR function. This returns zero if the \s-1ENGINE\s0 was not
-already operational and couldn't be successfully initialised (eg. lack of
-system drivers, no special hardware attached, etc), otherwise it will
-return non-zero to indicate that the \s-1ENGINE\s0 is now operational and will
-have allocated a new \fBfunctional\fR reference to the \s-1ENGINE.\s0 All functional
-references are released by calling \fIENGINE_finish()\fR (which removes the
-implicit structural reference as well).
-.PP
-The second way to get a functional reference is by asking OpenSSL for a
-default implementation for a given task, eg. by \fIENGINE_get_default_RSA()\fR,
-\&\fIENGINE_get_default_cipher_engine()\fR, etc. These are discussed in the next
-section, though they are not usually required by application programmers as
-they are used automatically when creating and using the relevant
-algorithm-specific types in OpenSSL, such as \s-1RSA, DSA, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,\s0 etc.
-.SS "Default implementations"
-.IX Subsection "Default implementations"
-For each supported abstraction, the \s-1ENGINE\s0 code maintains an internal table
-of state to control which implementations are available for a given
-abstraction and which should be used by default. These implementations are
-registered in the tables and indexed by an 'nid' value, because
-abstractions like \s-1EVP_CIPHER\s0 and \s-1EVP_DIGEST\s0 support many distinct
-algorithms and modes, and ENGINEs can support arbitrarily many of them.
-In the case of other abstractions like \s-1RSA, DSA,\s0 etc, there is only one
-\&\*(L"algorithm\*(R" so all implementations implicitly register using the same 'nid'
-index.
-.PP
-When a default \s-1ENGINE\s0 is requested for a given abstraction/algorithm/mode, (eg.
-when calling RSA_new_method(\s-1NULL\s0)), a \*(L"get_default\*(R" call will be made to the
-\&\s-1ENGINE\s0 subsystem to process the corresponding state table and return a
-functional reference to an initialised \s-1ENGINE\s0 whose implementation should be
-used. If no \s-1ENGINE\s0 should (or can) be used, it will return \s-1NULL\s0 and the caller
-will operate with a \s-1NULL ENGINE\s0 handle \- this usually equates to using the
-conventional software implementation. In the latter case, OpenSSL will from
-then on behave the way it used to before the \s-1ENGINE API\s0 existed.
-.PP
-Each state table has a flag to note whether it has processed this
-\&\*(L"get_default\*(R" query since the table was last modified, because to process
-this question it must iterate across all the registered ENGINEs in the
-table trying to initialise each of them in turn, in case one of them is
-operational. If it returns a functional reference to an \s-1ENGINE,\s0 it will
-also cache another reference to speed up processing future queries (without
-needing to iterate across the table). Likewise, it will cache a \s-1NULL\s0
-response if no \s-1ENGINE\s0 was available so that future queries won't repeat the
-same iteration unless the state table changes. This behaviour can also be
-changed; if the \s-1ENGINE_TABLE_FLAG_NOINIT\s0 flag is set (using
-\&\fIENGINE_set_table_flags()\fR), no attempted initialisations will take place,
-instead the only way for the state table to return a non-NULL \s-1ENGINE\s0 to the
-\&\*(L"get_default\*(R" query will be if one is expressly set in the table. Eg.
-\&\fIENGINE_set_default_RSA()\fR does the same job as \fIENGINE_register_RSA()\fR except
-that it also sets the state table's cached response for the \*(L"get_default\*(R"
-query. In the case of abstractions like \s-1EVP_CIPHER,\s0 where implementations are
-indexed by 'nid', these flags and cached-responses are distinct for each 'nid'
-value.
-.SS "Application requirements"
-.IX Subsection "Application requirements"
-This section will explain the basic things an application programmer should
-support to make the most useful elements of the \s-1ENGINE\s0 functionality
-available to the user. The first thing to consider is whether the
-programmer wishes to make alternative \s-1ENGINE\s0 modules available to the
-application and user. OpenSSL maintains an internal linked list of
-\&\*(L"visible\*(R" ENGINEs from which it has to operate \- at start-up, this list is
-empty and in fact if an application does not call any \s-1ENGINE API\s0 calls and
-it uses static linking against openssl, then the resulting application
-binary will not contain any alternative \s-1ENGINE\s0 code at all. So the first
-consideration is whether any/all available \s-1ENGINE\s0 implementations should be
-made visible to OpenSSL \- this is controlled by calling the various \*(L"load\*(R"
-functions, eg.
-.PP
-.Vb 9
-\& /* Make the "dynamic" ENGINE available */
-\& void ENGINE_load_dynamic(void);
-\& /* Make the CryptoSwift hardware acceleration support available */
-\& void ENGINE_load_cswift(void);
-\& /* Make support for nCipher\*(Aqs "CHIL" hardware available */
-\& void ENGINE_load_chil(void);
-\& ...
-\& /* Make ALL ENGINE implementations bundled with OpenSSL available */
-\& void ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(void);
-.Ve
-.PP
-Having called any of these functions, \s-1ENGINE\s0 objects would have been
-dynamically allocated and populated with these implementations and linked
-into OpenSSL's internal linked list. At this point it is important to
-mention an important \s-1API\s0 function;
-.PP
-.Vb 1
-\& void ENGINE_cleanup(void);
-.Ve
-.PP
-If no \s-1ENGINE API\s0 functions are called at all in an application, then there
-are no inherent memory leaks to worry about from the \s-1ENGINE\s0 functionality,
-however if any ENGINEs are loaded, even if they are never registered or
-used, it is necessary to use the \fIENGINE_cleanup()\fR function to
-correspondingly cleanup before program exit, if the caller wishes to avoid
-memory leaks. This mechanism uses an internal callback registration table
-so that any \s-1ENGINE API\s0 functionality that knows it requires cleanup can
-register its cleanup details to be called during \fIENGINE_cleanup()\fR. This
-approach allows \fIENGINE_cleanup()\fR to clean up after any \s-1ENGINE\s0 functionality
-at all that your program uses, yet doesn't automatically create linker
-dependencies to all possible \s-1ENGINE\s0 functionality \- only the cleanup
-callbacks required by the functionality you do use will be required by the
-linker.
-.PP
-The fact that ENGINEs are made visible to OpenSSL (and thus are linked into
-the program and loaded into memory at run-time) does not mean they are
-\&\*(L"registered\*(R" or called into use by OpenSSL automatically \- that behaviour
-is something for the application to control. Some applications
-will want to allow the user to specify exactly which \s-1ENGINE\s0 they want used
-if any is to be used at all. Others may prefer to load all support and have
-OpenSSL automatically use at run-time any \s-1ENGINE\s0 that is able to
-successfully initialise \- ie. to assume that this corresponds to
-acceleration hardware attached to the machine or some such thing. There are
-probably numerous other ways in which applications may prefer to handle
-things, so we will simply illustrate the consequences as they apply to a
-couple of simple cases and leave developers to consider these and the
-source code to openssl's builtin utilities as guides.
-.PP
-\&\fIUsing a specific \s-1ENGINE\s0 implementation\fR
-.PP
-Here we'll assume an application has been configured by its user or admin
-to want to use the \*(L"\s-1ACME\*(R" ENGINE\s0 if it is available in the version of
-OpenSSL the application was compiled with. If it is available, it should be
-used by default for all \s-1RSA, DSA,\s0 and symmetric cipher operations, otherwise
-OpenSSL should use its builtin software as per usual. The following code
-illustrates how to approach this;
-.PP
-.Vb 10
-\& ENGINE *e;
-\& const char *engine_id = "ACME";
-\& ENGINE_load_builtin_engines();
-\& e = ENGINE_by_id(engine_id);
-\& if(!e)
-\& /* the engine isn\*(Aqt available */
-\& return;
-\& if(!ENGINE_init(e)) {
-\& /* the engine couldn\*(Aqt initialise, release \*(Aqe\*(Aq */
-\& ENGINE_free(e);
-\& return;
-\& }
-\& if(!ENGINE_set_default_RSA(e))
-\& /* This should only happen when \*(Aqe\*(Aq can\*(Aqt initialise, but the previous
-\& * statement suggests it did. */
-\& abort();
-\& ENGINE_set_default_DSA(e);
-\& ENGINE_set_default_ciphers(e);
-\& /* Release the functional reference from ENGINE_init() */
-\& ENGINE_finish(e);
-\& /* Release the structural reference from ENGINE_by_id() */
-\& ENGINE_free(e);
-.Ve
-.PP
-\&\fIAutomatically using builtin \s-1ENGINE\s0 implementations\fR
-.PP
-Here we'll assume we want to load and register all \s-1ENGINE\s0 implementations
-bundled with OpenSSL, such that for any cryptographic algorithm required by
-OpenSSL \- if there is an \s-1ENGINE\s0 that implements it and can be initialised,
-it should be used. The following code illustrates how this can work;
-.PP
-.Vb 4
-\& /* Load all bundled ENGINEs into memory and make them visible */
-\& ENGINE_load_builtin_engines();
-\& /* Register all of them for every algorithm they collectively implement */
-\& ENGINE_register_all_complete();
-.Ve
-.PP
-That's all that's required. Eg. the next time OpenSSL tries to set up an
-\&\s-1RSA\s0 key, any bundled ENGINEs that implement \s-1RSA_METHOD\s0 will be passed to
-\&\fIENGINE_init()\fR and if any of those succeed, that \s-1ENGINE\s0 will be set as the
-default for \s-1RSA\s0 use from then on.
-.SS "Advanced configuration support"
-.IX Subsection "Advanced configuration support"
-There is a mechanism supported by the \s-1ENGINE\s0 framework that allows each
-\&\s-1ENGINE\s0 implementation to define an arbitrary set of configuration
-\&\*(L"commands\*(R" and expose them to OpenSSL and any applications based on
-OpenSSL. This mechanism is entirely based on the use of name-value pairs
-and assumes \s-1ASCII\s0 input (no unicode or \s-1UTF\s0 for now!), so it is ideal if
-applications want to provide a transparent way for users to provide
-arbitrary configuration \*(L"directives\*(R" directly to such ENGINEs. It is also
-possible for the application to dynamically interrogate the loaded \s-1ENGINE\s0
-implementations for the names, descriptions, and input flags of their
-available \*(L"control commands\*(R", providing a more flexible configuration
-scheme. However, if the user is expected to know which \s-1ENGINE\s0 device he/she
-is using (in the case of specialised hardware, this goes without saying)
-then applications may not need to concern themselves with discovering the
-supported control commands and simply prefer to pass settings into ENGINEs
-exactly as they are provided by the user.
-.PP
-Before illustrating how control commands work, it is worth mentioning what
-they are typically used for. Broadly speaking there are two uses for
-control commands; the first is to provide the necessary details to the
-implementation (which may know nothing at all specific to the host system)
-so that it can be initialised for use. This could include the path to any
-driver or config files it needs to load, required network addresses,
-smart-card identifiers, passwords to initialise protected devices,
-logging information, etc etc. This class of commands typically needs to be
-passed to an \s-1ENGINE\s0 \fBbefore\fR attempting to initialise it, ie. before
-calling \fIENGINE_init()\fR. The other class of commands consist of settings or
-operations that tweak certain behaviour or cause certain operations to take
-place, and these commands may work either before or after \fIENGINE_init()\fR, or
-in some cases both. \s-1ENGINE\s0 implementations should provide indications of
-this in the descriptions attached to builtin control commands and/or in
-external product documentation.
-.PP
-\&\fIIssuing control commands to an \s-1ENGINE\s0\fR
-.PP
-Let's illustrate by example; a function for which the caller supplies the
-name of the \s-1ENGINE\s0 it wishes to use, a table of string-pairs for use before
-initialisation, and another table for use after initialisation. Note that
-the string-pairs used for control commands consist of a command \*(L"name\*(R"
-followed by the command \*(L"parameter\*(R" \- the parameter could be \s-1NULL\s0 in some
-cases but the name can not. This function should initialise the \s-1ENGINE\s0
-(issuing the \*(L"pre\*(R" commands beforehand and the \*(L"post\*(R" commands afterwards)
-and set it as the default for everything except \s-1RAND\s0 and then return a
-boolean success or failure.
-.PP
-.Vb 10
-\& int generic_load_engine_fn(const char *engine_id,
-\& const char **pre_cmds, int pre_num,
-\& const char **post_cmds, int post_num)
-\& {
-\& ENGINE *e = ENGINE_by_id(engine_id);
-\& if(!e) return 0;
-\& while(pre_num\-\-) {
-\& if(!ENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string(e, pre_cmds[0], pre_cmds[1], 0)) {
-\& fprintf(stderr, "Failed command (%s \- %s:%s)\en", engine_id,
-\& pre_cmds[0], pre_cmds[1] ? pre_cmds[1] : "(NULL)");
-\& ENGINE_free(e);
-\& return 0;
-\& }
-\& pre_cmds += 2;
-\& }
-\& if(!ENGINE_init(e)) {
-\& fprintf(stderr, "Failed initialisation\en");
-\& ENGINE_free(e);
-\& return 0;
-\& }
-\& /* ENGINE_init() returned a functional reference, so free the structural
-\& * reference from ENGINE_by_id(). */
-\& ENGINE_free(e);
-\& while(post_num\-\-) {
-\& if(!ENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string(e, post_cmds[0], post_cmds[1], 0)) {
-\& fprintf(stderr, "Failed command (%s \- %s:%s)\en", engine_id,
-\& post_cmds[0], post_cmds[1] ? post_cmds[1] : "(NULL)");
-\& ENGINE_finish(e);
-\& return 0;
-\& }
-\& post_cmds += 2;
-\& }
-\& ENGINE_set_default(e, ENGINE_METHOD_ALL & ~ENGINE_METHOD_RAND);
-\& /* Success */
-\& return 1;
-\& }
-.Ve
-.PP
-Note that \fIENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string()\fR accepts a boolean argument that can
-relax the semantics of the function \- if set non-zero it will only return
-failure if the \s-1ENGINE\s0 supported the given command name but failed while
-executing it, if the \s-1ENGINE\s0 doesn't support the command name it will simply
-return success without doing anything. In this case we assume the user is
-only supplying commands specific to the given \s-1ENGINE\s0 so we set this to
-\&\s-1FALSE.\s0
-.PP
-\&\fIDiscovering supported control commands\fR
-.PP
-It is possible to discover at run-time the names, numerical-ids, descriptions
-and input parameters of the control commands supported by an \s-1ENGINE\s0 using a
-structural reference. Note that some control commands are defined by OpenSSL
-itself and it will intercept and handle these control commands on behalf of the
-\&\s-1ENGINE,\s0 ie. the \s-1ENGINE\s0's \fIctrl()\fR handler is not used for the control command.
-openssl/engine.h defines an index, \s-1ENGINE_CMD_BASE,\s0 that all control commands
-implemented by ENGINEs should be numbered from. Any command value lower than
-this symbol is considered a \*(L"generic\*(R" command is handled directly by the
-OpenSSL core routines.
-.PP
-It is using these \*(L"core\*(R" control commands that one can discover the control
-commands implemented by a given \s-1ENGINE,\s0 specifically the commands;
-.PP
-.Vb 9
-\& #define ENGINE_HAS_CTRL_FUNCTION 10
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_FIRST_CMD_TYPE 11
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_NEXT_CMD_TYPE 12
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_CMD_FROM_NAME 13
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_NAME_LEN_FROM_CMD 14
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_NAME_FROM_CMD 15
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_DESC_LEN_FROM_CMD 16
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_DESC_FROM_CMD 17
-\& #define ENGINE_CTRL_GET_CMD_FLAGS 18
-.Ve
-.PP
-Whilst these commands are automatically processed by the OpenSSL framework code,
-they use various properties exposed by each \s-1ENGINE\s0 to process these
-queries. An \s-1ENGINE\s0 has 3 properties it exposes that can affect how this behaves;
-it can supply a \fIctrl()\fR handler, it can specify \s-1ENGINE_FLAGS_MANUAL_CMD_CTRL\s0 in
-the \s-1ENGINE\s0's flags, and it can expose an array of control command descriptions.
-If an \s-1ENGINE\s0 specifies the \s-1ENGINE_FLAGS_MANUAL_CMD_CTRL\s0 flag, then it will
-simply pass all these \*(L"core\*(R" control commands directly to the \s-1ENGINE\s0's \fIctrl()\fR
-handler (and thus, it must have supplied one), so it is up to the \s-1ENGINE\s0 to
-reply to these \*(L"discovery\*(R" commands itself. If that flag is not set, then the
-OpenSSL framework code will work with the following rules;
-.PP
-.Vb 9
-\& if no ctrl() handler supplied;
-\& ENGINE_HAS_CTRL_FUNCTION returns FALSE (zero),
-\& all other commands fail.
-\& if a ctrl() handler was supplied but no array of control commands;
-\& ENGINE_HAS_CTRL_FUNCTION returns TRUE,
-\& all other commands fail.
-\& if a ctrl() handler and array of control commands was supplied;
-\& ENGINE_HAS_CTRL_FUNCTION returns TRUE,
-\& all other commands proceed processing ...
-.Ve
-.PP
-If the \s-1ENGINE\s0's array of control commands is empty then all other commands will
-fail, otherwise; \s-1ENGINE_CTRL_GET_FIRST_CMD_TYPE\s0 returns the identifier of
-the first command supported by the \s-1ENGINE, ENGINE_GET_NEXT_CMD_TYPE\s0 takes the
-identifier of a command supported by the \s-1ENGINE\s0 and returns the next command
-identifier or fails if there are no more, \s-1ENGINE_CMD_FROM_NAME\s0 takes a string
-name for a command and returns the corresponding identifier or fails if no such
-command name exists, and the remaining commands take a command identifier and
-return properties of the corresponding commands. All except
-\&\s-1ENGINE_CTRL_GET_FLAGS\s0 return the string length of a command name or description,
-or populate a supplied character buffer with a copy of the command name or
-description. \s-1ENGINE_CTRL_GET_FLAGS\s0 returns a bitwise-OR'd mask of the following
-possible values;
-.PP
-.Vb 4
-\& #define ENGINE_CMD_FLAG_NUMERIC (unsigned int)0x0001
-\& #define ENGINE_CMD_FLAG_STRING (unsigned int)0x0002
-\& #define ENGINE_CMD_FLAG_NO_INPUT (unsigned int)0x0004
-\& #define ENGINE_CMD_FLAG_INTERNAL (unsigned int)0x0008
-.Ve
-.PP
-If the \s-1ENGINE_CMD_FLAG_INTERNAL\s0 flag is set, then any other flags are purely
-informational to the caller \- this flag will prevent the command being usable
-for any higher-level \s-1ENGINE\s0 functions such as \fIENGINE_ctrl_cmd_string()\fR.
-\&\*(L"\s-1INTERNAL\*(R"\s0 commands are not intended to be exposed to text-based configuration
-by applications, administrations, users, etc. These can support arbitrary
-operations via \fIENGINE_ctrl()\fR, including passing to and/or from the control
-commands data of any arbitrary type. These commands are supported in the
-discovery mechanisms simply to allow applications determinie if an \s-1ENGINE\s0
-supports certain specific commands it might want to use (eg. application \*(L"foo\*(R"
-might query various ENGINEs to see if they implement \*(L"\s-1FOO_GET_VENDOR_LOGO_GIF\*(R"\s0 \-
-and \s-1ENGINE\s0 could therefore decide whether or not to support this \*(L"foo\*(R"\-specific
-extension).
-.SS "Future developments"
-.IX Subsection "Future developments"
-The \s-1ENGINE API\s0 and internal architecture is currently being reviewed. Slated for
-possible release in 0.9.8 is support for transparent loading of \*(L"dynamic\*(R"
-ENGINEs (built as self-contained shared-libraries). This would allow \s-1ENGINE\s0
-implementations to be provided independently of OpenSSL libraries and/or
-OpenSSL-based applications, and would also remove any requirement for
-applications to explicitly use the \*(L"dynamic\*(R" \s-1ENGINE\s0 to bind to shared-library
-implementations.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
-\&\fIrsa\fR\|(3), \fIdsa\fR\|(3), \fIdh\fR\|(3), \fIrand\fR\|(3)