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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
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.\" ========================================================================
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.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "ECDSA_SIGN 3ossl"
-.TH ECDSA_SIGN 3ossl "2023-09-19" "3.0.11" "OpenSSL"
+.TH ECDSA_SIGN 3ossl 2025-07-01 3.5.1 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"
+.SH NAME
ECDSA_size, ECDSA_sign, ECDSA_do_sign,
ECDSA_verify, ECDSA_do_verify, ECDSA_sign_setup, ECDSA_sign_ex,
ECDSA_do_sign_ex \- deprecated low\-level elliptic curve digital signature algorithm
(ECDSA) functions
-.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\& #include <openssl/ecdsa.h>
.Ve
.PP
The following functions have been deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, and can be
-hidden entirely by defining \fB\s-1OPENSSL_API_COMPAT\s0\fR with a suitable version value,
+hidden entirely by defining \fBOPENSSL_API_COMPAT\fR with a suitable version value,
see \fBopenssl_user_macros\fR\|(7):
.PP
.Vb 1
@@ -172,58 +96,58 @@ see \fBopenssl_user_macros\fR\|(7):
\& unsigned char *sig, unsigned int *siglen,
\& const BIGNUM *kinv, const BIGNUM *rp, EC_KEY *eckey);
.Ve
-.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
-See \fBECDSA_SIG_new\fR\|(3) for a description of the \fB\s-1ECDSA_SIG\s0\fR object.
+See \fBECDSA_SIG_new\fR\|(3) for a description of the \fBECDSA_SIG\fR object.
.PP
See \fBi2d_ECDSA_SIG\fR\|(3) and \fBd2i_ECDSA_SIG\fR\|(3) for information about encoding
-and decoding \s-1ECDSA\s0 signatures to/from \s-1DER.\s0
+and decoding ECDSA signatures to/from DER.
.PP
All of the functions described below are deprecated. Applications should
-use the higher level \fB\s-1EVP\s0\fR interface such as \fBEVP_DigestSignInit\fR\|(3)
+use the higher level \fBEVP\fR interface such as \fBEVP_DigestSignInit\fR\|(3)
or \fBEVP_DigestVerifyInit\fR\|(3) instead.
.PP
-\&\fBECDSA_size()\fR returns the maximum length of a \s-1DER\s0 encoded \s-1ECDSA\s0 signature
-created with the private \s-1EC\s0 key \fIeckey\fR. To obtain the actual signature
-size use \fBEVP_PKEY_sign\fR\|(3) with a \s-1NULL\s0 \fIsig\fR parameter.
+\&\fBECDSA_size()\fR returns the maximum length of a DER encoded ECDSA signature
+created with the private EC key \fIeckey\fR. To obtain the actual signature
+size use \fBEVP_PKEY_sign\fR\|(3) with a NULL \fIsig\fR parameter.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_sign()\fR computes a digital signature of the \fIdgstlen\fR bytes hash value
-\&\fIdgst\fR using the private \s-1EC\s0 key \fIeckey\fR. The \s-1DER\s0 encoded signatures is
-stored in \fIsig\fR and its length is returned in \fIsig_len\fR. Note: \fIsig\fR must
+\&\fIdgst\fR using the private EC key \fIeckey\fR. The DER encoded signatures is
+stored in \fIsig\fR and its length is returned in \fIsiglen\fR. Note: \fIsig\fR must
point to ECDSA_size(eckey) bytes of memory. The parameter \fItype\fR is currently
ignored. \fBECDSA_sign()\fR is wrapper function for \fBECDSA_sign_ex()\fR with \fIkinv\fR
-and \fIrp\fR set to \s-1NULL.\s0
+and \fIrp\fR set to NULL.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_do_sign()\fR is similar to \fBECDSA_sign()\fR except the signature is returned
-as a newly allocated \fB\s-1ECDSA_SIG\s0\fR structure (or \s-1NULL\s0 on error). \fBECDSA_do_sign()\fR
+as a newly allocated \fBECDSA_SIG\fR structure (or NULL on error). \fBECDSA_do_sign()\fR
is a wrapper function for \fBECDSA_do_sign_ex()\fR with \fIkinv\fR and \fIrp\fR set to
-\&\s-1NULL.\s0
+NULL.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_verify()\fR verifies that the signature in \fIsig\fR of size \fIsiglen\fR is a
-valid \s-1ECDSA\s0 signature of the hash value \fIdgst\fR of size \fIdgstlen\fR using the
+valid ECDSA signature of the hash value \fIdgst\fR of size \fIdgstlen\fR using the
public key \fIeckey\fR. The parameter \fItype\fR is ignored.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_do_verify()\fR is similar to \fBECDSA_verify()\fR except the signature is
-presented in the form of a pointer to an \fB\s-1ECDSA_SIG\s0\fR structure.
+presented in the form of a pointer to an \fBECDSA_SIG\fR structure.
.PP
The remaining functions utilise the internal \fIkinv\fR and \fIr\fR values used
during signature computation. Most applications will never need to call these
-and some external \s-1ECDSA ENGINE\s0 implementations may not support them at all if
-either \fIkinv\fR or \fIr\fR is not \s-1NULL.\s0
+and some external ECDSA ENGINE implementations may not support them at all if
+either \fIkinv\fR or \fIr\fR is not NULL.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_sign_setup()\fR may be used to precompute parts of the signing operation.
-\&\fIeckey\fR is the private \s-1EC\s0 key and \fIctx\fR is a pointer to \fB\s-1BN_CTX\s0\fR structure
-(or \s-1NULL\s0). The precomputed values or returned in \fIkinv\fR and \fIrp\fR and can be
+\&\fIeckey\fR is the private EC key and \fIctx\fR is a pointer to \fBBN_CTX\fR structure
+(or NULL). The precomputed values or returned in \fIkinv\fR and \fIrp\fR and can be
used in a later call to \fBECDSA_sign_ex()\fR or \fBECDSA_do_sign_ex()\fR.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_sign_ex()\fR computes a digital signature of the \fIdgstlen\fR bytes hash value
-\&\fIdgst\fR using the private \s-1EC\s0 key \fIeckey\fR and the optional pre-computed values
-\&\fIkinv\fR and \fIrp\fR. The \s-1DER\s0 encoded signature is stored in \fIsig\fR and its
-length is returned in \fIsig_len\fR. Note: \fIsig\fR must point to ECDSA_size(eckey)
+\&\fIdgst\fR using the private EC key \fIeckey\fR and the optional pre-computed values
+\&\fIkinv\fR and \fIrp\fR. The DER encoded signature is stored in \fIsig\fR and its
+length is returned in \fIsiglen\fR. Note: \fIsig\fR must point to ECDSA_size(eckey)
bytes of memory. The parameter \fItype\fR is ignored.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_do_sign_ex()\fR is similar to \fBECDSA_sign_ex()\fR except the signature is
-returned as a newly allocated \fB\s-1ECDSA_SIG\s0\fR structure (or \s-1NULL\s0 on error).
+returned as a newly allocated \fBECDSA_SIG\fR structure (or NULL on error).
.SH "RETURN VALUES"
.IX Header "RETURN VALUES"
\&\fBECDSA_size()\fR returns the maximum length signature or 0 on error.
@@ -232,18 +156,18 @@ returned as a newly allocated \fB\s-1ECDSA_SIG\s0\fR structure (or \s-1NULL\s0 o
or 0 on error.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_do_sign()\fR and \fBECDSA_do_sign_ex()\fR return a pointer to an allocated
-\&\fB\s-1ECDSA_SIG\s0\fR structure or \s-1NULL\s0 on error.
+\&\fBECDSA_SIG\fR structure or NULL on error.
.PP
\&\fBECDSA_verify()\fR and \fBECDSA_do_verify()\fR return 1 for a valid
signature, 0 for an invalid signature and \-1 on error.
The error codes can be obtained by \fBERR_get_error\fR\|(3).
-.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.SH EXAMPLES
.IX Header "EXAMPLES"
-Creating an \s-1ECDSA\s0 signature of a given \s-1SHA\-256\s0 hash value using the
+Creating an ECDSA signature of a given SHA\-256 hash value using the
named curve prime256v1 (aka P\-256).
-This example uses deprecated functionality. See \*(L"\s-1DESCRIPTION\*(R"\s0.
+This example uses deprecated functionality. See "DESCRIPTION".
.PP
-First step: create an \s-1EC_KEY\s0 object (note: this part is \fBnot\fR \s-1ECDSA\s0
+First step: create an EC_KEY object (note: this part is \fBnot\fR ECDSA
specific)
.PP
.Vb 3
@@ -258,7 +182,7 @@ specific)
\& /* error */
.Ve
.PP
-Second step: compute the \s-1ECDSA\s0 signature of a \s-1SHA\-256\s0 hash value
+Second step: compute the ECDSA signature of a SHA\-256 hash value
using \fBECDSA_do_sign()\fR:
.PP
.Vb 3
@@ -280,7 +204,7 @@ or using \fBECDSA_sign()\fR:
\& /* error */
.Ve
.PP
-Third step: verify the created \s-1ECDSA\s0 signature using \fBECDSA_do_verify()\fR:
+Third step: verify the created ECDSA signature using \fBECDSA_do_verify()\fR:
.PP
.Vb 1
\& ret = ECDSA_do_verify(digest, 32, sig, eckey);
@@ -304,8 +228,8 @@ and finally evaluate the return value:
.Ve
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
.IX Header "CONFORMING TO"
-\&\s-1ANSI X9.62, US\s0 Federal Information Processing Standard \s-1FIPS186\-2\s0
-(Digital Signature Standard, \s-1DSS\s0)
+ANSI X9.62, US Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS186\-2
+(Digital Signature Standard, DSS)
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBEC_KEY_new\fR\|(3),
@@ -314,14 +238,14 @@ and finally evaluate the return value:
\&\fBEVP_PKEY_sign\fR\|(3)
\&\fBi2d_ECDSA_SIG\fR\|(3),
\&\fBd2i_ECDSA_SIG\fR\|(3)
-.SH "HISTORY"
+.SH HISTORY
.IX Header "HISTORY"
All functionality described here was deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0.
-.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright 2004\-2022 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
.PP
-Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use
+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 \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at
+in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.