SSL_GET_CLIENT_RANDOM(3) OpenSSL SSL_GET_CLIENT_RANDOM(3)
NAME
SSL_get_client_random, SSL_get_server_random,
SSL_SESSION_get_master_key, SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key - get internal
TLS/SSL random values and get/set master key
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
size_t SSL_get_client_random(const SSL *ssl, unsigned char *out, size_t outlen);
size_t SSL_get_server_random(const SSL *ssl, unsigned char *out, size_t outlen);
size_t SSL_SESSION_get_master_key(const SSL_SESSION *session,
unsigned char *out, size_t outlen);
int SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key(SSL_SESSION *sess, const unsigned char *in,
size_t len);
DESCRIPTION
SSL_get_client_random() extracts the random value sent from the client
to the server during the initial SSL/TLS handshake. It copies as many
bytes as it can of this value into the buffer provided in out, which
must have at least outlen bytes available. It returns the total number
of bytes that were actually copied. If outlen is zero,
SSL_get_client_random() copies nothing, and returns the total size of
the client_random value.
SSL_get_server_random() behaves the same, but extracts the random value
sent from the server to the client during the initial SSL/TLS
handshake.
SSL_SESSION_get_master_key() behaves the same, but extracts the master
secret used to guarantee the security of the SSL/TLS session. This one
can be dangerous if misused; see NOTES below.
SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key() sets the master key value associated with
the SSL_SESSION sess. For example, this could be used to set up a
session based PSK (see SSL_CTX_set_psk_use_session_callback(3)). The
master key of length len should be provided at in. The supplied master
key is copied by the function, so the caller is responsible for freeing
and cleaning any memory associated with in. The caller must ensure that
the length of the key is suitable for the ciphersuite associated with
the SSL_SESSION.
NOTES
You probably shouldn't use these functions.
These functions expose internal values from the TLS handshake, for use
in low-level protocols. You probably should not use them, unless you
are implementing something that needs access to the internal protocol
details.
Despite the names of SSL_get_client_random() and
SSL_get_server_random(), they ARE NOT random number generators.
Instead, they return the mostly-random values that were already
generated and used in the TLS protocol. Using them in place of
RAND_bytes() would be grossly foolish.
The security of your TLS session depends on keeping the master key
secret: do not expose it, or any information about it, to anybody. If
you need to calculate another secret value that depends on the master
secret, you should probably use SSL_export_keying_material() instead,
and forget that you ever saw these functions.
In current versions of the TLS protocols, the length of client_random
(and also server_random) is always SSL3_RANDOM_SIZE bytes. Support for
other outlen arguments to the SSL_get_*_random() functions is provided
in case of the unlikely event that a future version or variant of TLS
uses some other length there.
Finally, though the "client_random" and "server_random" values are
called "random", many TLS implementations will generate four bytes of
those values based on their view of the current time.
RETURN VALUES
SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key() returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.
For the other functions, if outlen is greater than 0 then these
functions return the number of bytes actually copied, which will be
less than or equal to outlen. If outlen is 0 then these functions
return the maximum number of bytes they would copy -- that is, the
length of the underlying field.
SEE ALSO
ssl(7), RAND_bytes(3), SSL_export_keying_material(3),
SSL_CTX_set_psk_use_session_callback(3)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2015-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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