X509_SIGN(3) OpenSSL X509_SIGN(3)
NAME
X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx, X509_verify, X509_REQ_sign,
X509_REQ_sign_ctx, X509_REQ_verify, X509_CRL_sign, X509_CRL_sign_ctx,
X509_CRL_verify - sign or verify certificate, certificate request or
CRL signature
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/x509.h>
int X509_sign(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
int X509_sign_ctx(X509 *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
int X509_verify(X509 *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
int X509_REQ_sign_ctx(X509_REQ *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
int X509_REQ_verify(X509_REQ *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
int X509_CRL_sign_ctx(X509_CRL *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
int X509_CRL_verify(X509_CRL *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
DESCRIPTION
X509_sign() signs certificate x using private key pkey and message
digest md and sets the signature in x. X509_sign_ctx() also signs
certificate x but uses the parameters contained in digest context ctx.
X509_verify() verifies the signature of certificate x using public key
pkey. Only the signature is checked: no other checks (such as
certificate chain validity) are performed.
X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_verify(),
X509_CRL_sign(), X509_CRL_sign_ctx() and X509_CRL_verify() sign and
verify certificate requests and CRLs respectively.
NOTES
X509_sign_ctx() is used where the default parameters for the
corresponding public key and digest are not suitable. It can be used to
sign keys using RSA-PSS for example.
For efficiency reasons and to work around ASN.1 encoding issues the
encoding of the signed portion of a certificate, certificate request
and CRL is cached internally. If the signed portion of the structure is
modified the encoding is not always updated meaning a stale version is
sometimes used. This is not normally a problem because modifying the
signed portion will invalidate the signature and signing will always
update the encoding.
RETURN VALUES
X509_sign(), X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(),
X509_CRL_sign() and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() return the size of the
signature in bytes for success and zero for failure.
X509_verify(), X509_REQ_verify() and X509_CRL_verify() return 1 if the
signature is valid and 0 if the signature check fails. If the signature
could not be checked at all because it was invalid or some other error
occurred then -1 is returned.
SEE ALSO
d2i_X509(3), ERR_get_error(3), X509_CRL_get0_by_serial(3),
X509_get0_signature(3), X509_get_ext_d2i(3),
X509_get_extension_flags(3), X509_get_pubkey(3),
X509_get_subject_name(3), X509_get_version(3),
X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(3), X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_object(3),
X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(3), X509_NAME_print_ex(3), X509_new(3),
X509V3_get_d2i(3), X509_verify_cert(3)
HISTORY
The X509_sign(), X509_REQ_sign() and X509_CRL_sign() functions are
available in all versions of OpenSSL.
The X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx() and X509_CRL_sign_ctx()
functions were added OpenSSL 1.0.1.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2015-2016 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>.
1.1.1k 2021-03-25 X509_SIGN(3)