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1
2Bundle of old SSLeay documentation files [OBSOLETE!]
3
4==== readme ========================================================
5
6This is the old 0.6.6 docuementation. Most of the cipher stuff is still
7relevent but I'm working (very slowly) on new docuemtation.
8The current version can be found online at
9
10http://www.cryptsoft.com/ssleay/doc
11
12==== API.doc ========================================================
13
14SSL - SSLv2/v3/v23 etc.
15
16BIO - methods and how they plug together
17
18MEM - memory allocation callback
19
20CRYPTO - locking for threads
21
22EVP - Ciphers/Digests/signatures
23
24RSA - methods
25
26X509 - certificate retrieval
27
28X509 - validation
29
30X509 - X509v3 extensions
31
32Objects - adding object identifiers
33
34ASN.1 - parsing
35
36PEM - parsing
37
38==== ssl/readme =====================================================
39
4022 Jun 1996
41This file belongs in ../apps, but I'll leave it here because it deals
42with SSL :-) It is rather dated but it gives you an idea of how
43things work.
44===
45
4617 Jul 1995
47I have been changing things quite a bit and have not fully updated
48this file, so take what you read with a grain of salt
49eric
50===
51The s_client and s_server programs can be used to test SSL capable
52IP/port addresses and the verification of the X509 certificates in use
53by these services. I strongly advise having a look at the code to get
54an idea of how to use the authentication under SSLeay. Any feedback
55on changes and improvements would be greatly accepted.
56
57This file will probably be gibberish unless you have read
58rfc1421, rfc1422, rfc1423 and rfc1424 which describe PEM
59authentication.
60
61A Brief outline (and examples) how to use them to do so.
62
63NOTE:
64The environment variable SSL_CIPER is used to specify the prefered
65cipher to use, play around with setting it's value to combinations of
66RC4-MD5, EXP-RC4-MD5, CBC-DES-MD5, CBC3-DES-MD5, CFB-DES-NULL
67in a : separated list.
68
69This directory contains 3 X509 certificates which can be used by these programs.
70client.pem: a file containing a certificate and private key to be used
71 by s_client.
72server.pem :a file containing a certificate and private key to be used
73 by s_server.
74eay1024.pem:the certificate used to sign client.pem and server.pem.
75 This would be your CA's certificate. There is also a link
76 from the file a8556381.0 to eay1024.PEM. The value a8556381
77 is returned by 'x509 -hash -noout <eay1024.pem' and is the
78 value used by X509 verification routines to 'find' this
79 certificte when search a directory for it.
80 [the above is not true any more, the CA cert is
81 ../certs/testca.pem which is signed by ../certs/mincomca.pem]
82
83When testing the s_server, you may get
84bind: Address already in use
85errors. These indicate the port is still being held by the unix
86kernel and you are going to have to wait for it to let go of it. If
87this is the case, remember to use the port commands on the s_server and
88s_client to talk on an alternative port.
89
90=====
91s_client.
92This program can be used to connect to any IP/hostname:port that is
93talking SSL. Once connected, it will attempt to authenticate the
94certificate it was passed and if everything works as expected, a 2
95directional channel will be open. Any text typed will be sent to the
96other end. type Q<cr> to exit. Flags are as follows.
97-host arg : Arg is the host or IP address to connect to.
98-port arg : Arg is the port to connect to (https is 443).
99-verify arg : Turn on authentication of the server certificate.
100 : Arg specifies the 'depth', this will covered below.
101-cert arg : The optional certificate to use. This certificate
102 : will be returned to the server if the server
103 : requests it for client authentication.
104-key arg : The private key that matches the certificate
105 : specified by the -cert option. If this is not
106 : specified (but -cert is), the -cert file will be
107 : searched for the Private key. Both files are
108 : assumed to be in PEM format.
109-CApath arg : When to look for certificates when 'verifying' the
110 : certificate from the server.
111-CAfile arg : A file containing certificates to be used for
112 : 'verifying' the server certificate.
113-reconnect : Once a connection has been made, drop it and
114 : reconnect with same session-id. This is for testing :-).
115
116The '-verify n' parameter specifies not only to verify the servers
117certificate but to also only take notice of 'n' levels. The best way
118to explain is to show via examples.
119Given
120s_server -cert server.PEM is running.
121
122s_client
123 CONNECTED
124 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
125 issuer= /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
126 verify error:num=1:unable to get issuer certificate
127 verify return:1
128 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
129What has happened is that the 'SSLeay demo server' certificate's
130issuer ('CA') could not be found but because verify is not on, we
131don't care and the connection has been made anyway. It is now 'up'
132using CBC-DES-MD5 mode. This is an unauthenticate secure channel.
133You may not be talking to the right person but the data going to them
134is encrypted.
135
136s_client -verify 0
137 CONNECTED
138 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
139 issuer= /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
140 verify error:num=1:unable to get issuer certificate
141 verify return:1
142 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
143We are 'verifying' but only to depth 0, so since the 'SSLeay demo server'
144certificate passed the date and checksum, we are happy to proceed.
145
146s_client -verify 1
147 CONNECTED
148 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
149 issuer= /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
150 verify error:num=1:unable to get issuer certificate
151 verify return:0
152 ERROR
153 verify error:unable to get issuer certificate
154In this case we failed to make the connection because we could not
155authenticate the certificate because we could not find the
156'CA' certificate.
157
158s_client -verify 1 -CAfile eay1024.PEM
159 CONNECTED
160 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
161 verify return:1
162 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
163 verify return:1
164 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
165We loaded the certificates from the file eay1024.PEM. Everything
166checked out and so we made the connection.
167
168s_client -verify 1 -CApath .
169 CONNECTED
170 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
171 verify return:1
172 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
173 verify return:1
174 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
175We looked in out local directory for issuer certificates and 'found'
176a8556381.0 and so everything is ok.
177
178It is worth noting that 'CA' is a self certified certificate. If you
179are passed one of these, it will fail to 'verify' at depth 0 because
180we need to lookup the certifier of a certificate from some information
181that we trust and keep locally.
182
183SSL_CIPHER=CBC3-DES-MD5:RC4-MD5
184export SSL_CIPHER
185s_client -verify 10 -CApath . -reconnect
186 CONNECTED
187 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
188 verify return:1
189 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
190 verify return:1
191 drop the connection and reconnect with the same session id
192 CIPHER is CBC3-DES-MD5
193This has done a full connection and then re-estabished it with the
194same session id but a new socket. No RSA stuff occures on the second
195connection. Note that we said we would prefer to use CBC3-DES-MD5
196encryption and so, since the server supports it, we are.
197
198=====
199s_server
200This program accepts SSL connections on a specified port
201Once connected, it will estabish an SSL connection and optionaly
202attempt to authenticate the client. A 2 directional channel will be
203open. Any text typed will be sent to the other end. Type Q<cr> to exit.
204Flags are as follows.
205-port arg : Arg is the port to listen on.
206-verify arg : Turn on authentication of the client if they have a
207 : certificate. Arg specifies the 'depth'.
208-Verify arg : Turn on authentication of the client. If they don't
209 : have a valid certificate, drop the connection.
210-cert arg : The certificate to use. This certificate
211 : will be passed to the client. If it is not
212 : specified, it will default to server.PEM
213-key arg : The private key that matches the certificate
214 : specified by the -cert option. If this is not
215 : specified (but -cert is), the -cert file will be
216 : searched for the Private key. Both files are
217 : assumed to be in PEM format. Default is server.PEM
218-CApath arg : When to look for certificates when 'verifying' the
219 : certificate from the client.
220-CAfile arg : A file containing certificates to be used for
221 : 'verifying' the client certificate.
222
223For the following 'demo' I will specify the s_server command and
224the s_client command and then list the output from the s_server.
225s_server
226s_client
227 CONNECTED
228 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
229Everything up and running
230
231s_server -verify 0
232s_client
233 CONNECTED
234 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
235Ok since no certificate was returned and we don't care.
236
237s_server -verify 0
238./s_client -cert client.PEM
239 CONNECTED
240 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo client
241 issuer= /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
242 verify error:num=1:unable to get issuer certificate
243 verify return:1
244 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
245Ok since we were only verifying to level 0
246
247s_server -verify 4
248s_client -cert client.PEM
249 CONNECTED
250 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo client
251 issuer= /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
252 verify error:num=1:unable to get issuer certificate
253 verify return:0
254 ERROR
255 verify error:unable to get issuer certificate
256Bad because we could not authenticate the returned certificate.
257
258s_server -verify 4 -CApath .
259s_client -cert client.PEM
260 CONNECTED
261 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo client
262 verify return:1
263 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
264 verify return:1
265 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
266Ok because we could authenticate the returned certificate :-).
267
268s_server -Verify 0 -CApath .
269s_client
270 CONNECTED
271 ERROR
272 SSL error:function is:REQUEST_CERTIFICATE
273 :error is :client end did not return a certificate
274Error because no certificate returned.
275
276s_server -Verify 4 -CApath .
277s_client -cert client.PEM
278 CONNECTED
279 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo client
280 verify return:1
281 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
282 verify return:1
283 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
284Full authentication of the client.
285
286So in summary to do full authentication of both ends
287s_server -Verify 9 -CApath .
288s_client -cert client.PEM -CApath . -verify 9
289From the server side
290 CONNECTED
291 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo client
292 verify return:1
293 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
294 verify return:1
295 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
296From the client side
297 CONNECTED
298 depth=0 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=SSLeay demo server
299 verify return:1
300 depth=1 /C=AU/SOP=QLD/O=Mincom Pty. Ltd./OU=CS/CN=CA
301 verify return:1
302 CIPHER is CBC-DES-MD5
303
304For general probing of the 'internet https' servers for the
305distribution area, run
306s_client -host www.netscape.com -port 443 -verify 4 -CApath ../rsa/hash
307Then enter
308GET /
309and you should be talking to the https server on that host.
310
311www.rsa.com was refusing to respond to connections on 443 when I was
312testing.
313
314have fun :-).
315
316eric
317
318==== a_verify.doc ========================================================
319
320From eay@mincom.com Fri Oct 4 18:29:06 1996
321Received: by orb.mincom.oz.au id AA29080
322 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eay); Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:29:07 +1000
323Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:29:06 +1000 (EST)
324From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
325X-Sender: eay@orb
326To: wplatzer <wplatzer@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at>
327Cc: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>, SSL Mailing List <ssl-users@mincom.com>
328Subject: Re: Netscape's Public Key
329In-Reply-To: <19961003134837.NTM0049@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at>
330Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961004081346.8018K-100000@orb>
331Mime-Version: 1.0
332Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
333Status: RO
334X-Status:
335
336On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, wplatzer wrote:
337> I get Public Key from Netscape (Gold 3.0b4), but cannot do anything
338> with it... It looks like (asn1parse):
339>
340> 0:d=0 hl=3 l=180 cons: SEQUENCE
341> 3:d=1 hl=2 l= 96 cons: SEQUENCE
342> 5:d=2 hl=2 l= 92 cons: SEQUENCE
343> 7:d=3 hl=2 l= 13 cons: SEQUENCE
344> 9:d=4 hl=2 l= 9 prim: OBJECT :rsaEncryption
345> 20:d=4 hl=2 l= 0 prim: NULL
346> 22:d=3 hl=2 l= 75 prim: BIT STRING
347> 99:d=2 hl=2 l= 0 prim: IA5STRING :
348> 101:d=1 hl=2 l= 13 cons: SEQUENCE
349> 103:d=2 hl=2 l= 9 prim: OBJECT :md5withRSAEncryption
350> 114:d=2 hl=2 l= 0 prim: NULL
351> 116:d=1 hl=2 l= 65 prim: BIT STRING
352>
353> The first BIT STRING is the public key and the second BIT STRING is
354> the signature.
355> But a public key consists of the public exponent and the modulus. Are
356> both numbers in the first BIT STRING?
357> Is there a document simply describing this coding stuff (checking
358> signature, get the public key, etc.)?
359
360Minimal in SSLeay. If you want to see what the modulus and exponent are,
361try asn1parse -offset 25 -length 75 <key.pem
362asn1parse will currently stuff up on the 'length 75' part (fixed in next
363release) but it will print the stuff. If you are after more
364documentation on ASN.1, have a look at www.rsa.com and get their PKCS
365documents, most of my initial work on SSLeay was done using them.
366
367As for SSLeay,
368util/crypto.num and util/ssl.num are lists of all exported functions in
369the library (but not macros :-(.
370
371The ones for extracting public keys from certificates and certificate
372requests are EVP_PKEY * X509_REQ_extract_key(X509_REQ *req);
373EVP_PKEY * X509_extract_key(X509 *x509);
374
375To verify a signature on a signed ASN.1 object
376int X509_verify(X509 *a,EVP_PKEY *key);
377int X509_REQ_verify(X509_REQ *a,EVP_PKEY *key);
378int X509_CRL_verify(X509_CRL *a,EVP_PKEY *key);
379int NETSCAPE_SPKI_verify(NETSCAPE_SPKI *a,EVP_PKEY *key);
380
381I should mention that EVP_PKEY can be used to hold a public or a private key,
382since for things like RSA and DSS, a public key is just a subset of what
383is stored for the private key.
384
385To sign any of the above structures
386
387int X509_sign(X509 *a,EVP_PKEY *key,EVP_MD *md);
388int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *a,EVP_PKEY *key,EVP_MD *md);
389int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *a,EVP_PKEY *key,EVP_MD *md);
390int NETSCAPE_SPKI_sign(NETSCAPE_SPKI *a,EVP_PKEY *key,EVP_MD *md);
391
392where md is the message digest to sign with.
393
394There are all defined in x509.h and all the _sign and _verify functions are
395actually macros to the ASN1_sign() and ASN1_verify() functions.
396These functions will put the correct algorithm identifiers in the correct
397places in the structures.
398
399eric
400--
401Eric Young | BOOL is tri-state according to Bill Gates.
402AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | RTFM Win32 GetMessage().
403
404==== x509 =======================================================
405
406X509_verify()
407X509_sign()
408
409X509_get_version()
410X509_get_serialNumber()
411X509_get_issuer()
412X509_get_subject()
413X509_get_notBefore()
414X509_get_notAfter()
415X509_get_pubkey()
416
417X509_set_version()
418X509_set_serialNumber()
419X509_set_issuer()
420X509_set_subject()
421X509_set_notBefore()
422X509_set_notAfter()
423X509_set_pubkey()
424
425X509_get_extensions()
426X509_set_extensions()
427
428X509_EXTENSIONS_clear()
429X509_EXTENSIONS_retrieve()
430X509_EXTENSIONS_add()
431X509_EXTENSIONS_delete()
432
433==== x509 attribute ================================================
434
435PKCS7
436 STACK of X509_ATTRIBUTES
437 ASN1_OBJECT
438 STACK of ASN1_TYPE
439
440So it is
441
442p7.xa[].obj
443p7.xa[].data[]
444
445get_obj_by_nid(STACK , nid)
446get_num_by_nid(STACK , nid)
447get_data_by_nid(STACK , nid, index)
448
449X509_ATTRIBUTE *X509_ATTRIBUTE_new(void );
450void X509_ATTRIBUTE_free(X509_ATTRIBUTE *a);
451
452X509_ATTRIBUTE *X509_ATTRIBUTE_create_by_NID(X509_ATTRIBUTE **ex,
453 int nid, STACK *value);
454
455X509_ATTRIBUTE *X509_ATTRIBUTE_create_by_OBJ(X509_ATTRIBUTE **ex,
456 int nid, STACK *value);
457
458int X509_ATTRIBUTE_set_object(X509_ATTRIBUTE *ex,ASN1_OBJECT *obj);
459int X509_ATTRIBUTE_add_data(X509_ATTRIBUTE *ex, int index,
460 ASN1_TYPE *value);
461
462ASN1_OBJECT * X509_ATTRIBUTE_get_object(X509_ATTRIBUTE *ex);
463int X509_ATTRIBUTE_get_num(X509_ATTRIBUTE *ne);
464ASN1_TYPE * X509_ATTRIBUTE_get_data(X509_ATTRIBUTE *ne,int index);
465
466ASN1_TYPE * X509_ATTRIBUTE_get_data_by_NID(X509_ATTRIBUTE *ne,
467 ASN1_OBJECT *obj);
468
469X509_ATTRIBUTE *PKCS7_get_s_att_by_NID(PKCS7 *p7,int nid);
470X509_ATTRIBUTE *PKCS7_get_u_att_by_NID(PKCS7 *p7,int nid);
471
472==== x509 v3 ========================================================
473
474The 'new' system.
475
476The X509_EXTENSION_METHOD includes extensions and attributes and/or names.
477Basically everthing that can be added to an X509 with an OID identifying it.
478
479It operates via 2 methods per object id.
480int a2i_XXX(X509 *x,char *str,int len);
481int i2a_XXX(BIO *bp,X509 *x);
482
483The a2i_XXX function will add the object with a value converted from the
484string into the X509. Len can be -1 in which case the length is calculated
485via strlen(str). Applications can always use direct knowledge to load and
486unload the relevent objects themselves.
487
488i2a_XXX will print to the passed BIO, a text representation of the
489relevet object. Use a memory BIO if you want it printed to a buffer :-).
490
491X509_add_by_NID(X509 *x,int nid,char *str,int len);
492X509_add_by_OBJ(X509 *x,ASN1_OBJECT *obj,char *str,int len);
493
494X509_print_by_name(BIO *bp,X509 *x);
495X509_print_by_NID(BIO *bp,X509 *x);
496X509_print_by_OBJ(BIO *bp,X509 *x);
497
498==== verify ========================================================
499
500X509_verify_cert_chain(
501 CERT_STORE *cert_store,
502 STACK /* X509 */ *certs,
503 int *verify_result,
504 int (*verify_error_callback)()
505 char *argument_to_callback, /* SSL */
506
507app_verify_callback(
508 char *app_verify_arg, /* from SSL_CTX */
509 STACK /* X509 */ *certs,
510 int *verify_result,
511 int (*verify_error_callback)()
512 SSL *s,
513
514int X509_verify_cert(
515 CERT_STORE *cert_store,
516 X509 *x509,
517 int *verify_result,
518 int (*verify_error_callback)(),
519 char *arg,
520
521==== apps.doc ========================================================
522
523The applications
524
525Ok, where to begin....
526In the begining, when SSLeay was small (April 1995), there
527were but few applications, they did happily cohabit in
528the one bin directory. Then over time, they did multiply and grow,
529and they started to look like microsoft software; 500k to print 'hello world'.
530A new approach was needed. They were coalessed into one 'Monolithic'
531application, ssleay. This one program is composed of many programs that
532can all be compiled independantly.
533
534ssleay has 3 modes of operation.
5351) If the ssleay binaray has the name of one of its component programs, it
536executes that program and then exits. This can be achieve by using hard or
537symbolic links, or failing that, just renaming the binary.
5382) If the first argument to ssleay is the name of one of the component
539programs, that program runs that program and then exits.
5403) If there are no arguments, ssleay enters a 'command' mode. Each line is
541interpreted as a program name plus arguments. After each 'program' is run,
542ssleay returns to the comand line.
543
544dgst - message digests
545enc - encryption and base64 encoding
546
547ans1parse - 'pulls' appart ASN.1 encoded objects like certificates.
548
549dh - Diffle-Hellman parameter manipulation.
550rsa - RSA manipulations.
551crl - Certificate revokion list manipulations
552x509 - X509 cert fiddles, including signing.
553pkcs7 - pkcs7 manipulation, only DER versions right now.
554
555genrsa - generate an RSA private key.
556gendh - Generate a set of Diffle-Hellman parameters.
557req - Generate a PKCS#10 object, a certificate request.
558
559s_client - SSL client program
560s_server - SSL server program
561s_time - A SSL protocol timing program
562s_mult - Another SSL server, but it multiplexes
563 connections.
564s_filter - under development
565
566errstr - Convert SSLeay error numbers to strings.
567ca - Sign certificate requests, and generate
568 certificate revokion lists
569crl2pkcs7 - put a crl and certifcates into a pkcs7 object.
570speed - Benchmark the ciphers.
571verify - Check certificates
572hashdir - under development
573
574[ there a now a few more options, play with the program to see what they
575 are ]
576
577==== asn1.doc ========================================================
578
579The ASN.1 Routines.
580
581ASN.1 is a specification for how to encode structured 'data' in binary form.
582The approach I have take to the manipulation of structures and their encoding
583into ASN.1 is as follows.
584
585For each distinct structure there are 4 function of the following form
586TYPE *TYPE_new(void);
587void TYPE_free(TYPE *);
588TYPE *d2i_TYPE(TYPE **a,unsigned char **pp,long length);
589long i2d_TYPE(TYPE *a,unsigned char **pp); /* CHECK RETURN VALUE */
590
591where TYPE is the type of the 'object'. The TYPE that have these functions
592can be in one of 2 forms, either the internal C malloc()ed data structure
593or in the DER (a variant of ASN.1 encoding) binary encoding which is just
594an array of unsigned bytes. The 'i2d' functions converts from the internal
595form to the DER form and the 'd2i' functions convert from the DER form to
596the internal form.
597
598The 'new' function returns a malloc()ed version of the structure with all
599substructures either created or left as NULL pointers. For 'optional'
600fields, they are normally left as NULL to indicate no value. For variable
601size sub structures (often 'SET OF' or 'SEQUENCE OF' in ASN.1 syntax) the
602STACK data type is used to hold the values. Have a read of stack.doc
603and have a look at the relevant header files to see what I mean. If there
604is an error while malloc()ing the structure, NULL is returned.
605
606The 'free' function will free() all the sub components of a particular
607structure. If any of those sub components have been 'removed', replace
608them with NULL pointers, the 'free' functions are tolerant of NULL fields.
609
610The 'd2i' function copies a binary representation into a C structure. It
611operates as follows. 'a' is a pointer to a pointer to
612the structure to populate, 'pp' is a pointer to a pointer to where the DER
613byte string is located and 'length' is the length of the '*pp' data.
614If there are no errors, a pointer to the populated structure is returned.
615If there is an error, NULL is returned. Errors can occur because of
616malloc() failures but normally they will be due to syntax errors in the DER
617encoded data being parsed. It is also an error if there was an
618attempt to read more that 'length' bytes from '*p'. If
619everything works correctly, the value in '*p' is updated
620to point at the location just beyond where the DER
621structure was read from. In this way, chained calls to 'd2i' type
622functions can be made, with the pointer into the 'data' array being
623'walked' along the input byte array.
624Depending on the value passed for 'a', different things will be done. If
625'a' is NULL, a new structure will be malloc()ed and returned. If '*a' is
626NULL, a new structure will be malloc()ed and put into '*a' and returned.
627If '*a' is not NULL, the structure in '*a' will be populated, or in the
628case of an error, free()ed and then returned.
629Having these semantics means that a structure
630can call a 'd2i' function to populate a field and if the field is currently
631NULL, the structure will be created.
632
633The 'i2d' function type is used to copy a C structure to a byte array.
634The parameter 'a' is the structure to convert and '*p' is where to put it.
635As for the 'd2i' type structure, 'p' is updated to point after the last
636byte written. If p is NULL, no data is written. The function also returns
637the number of bytes written. Where this becomes useful is that if the
638function is called with a NULL 'p' value, the length is returned. This can
639then be used to malloc() an array of bytes and then the same function can
640be recalled passing the malloced array to be written to. e.g.
641
642int len;
643unsigned char *bytes,*p;
644len=i2d_X509(x,NULL); /* get the size of the ASN1 encoding of 'x' */
645if ((bytes=(unsigned char *)malloc(len)) == NULL)
646 goto err;
647p=bytes;
648i2d_X509(x,&p);
649
650Please note that a new variable, 'p' was passed to i2d_X509. After the
651call to i2d_X509 p has been incremented by len bytes.
652
653Now the reason for this functional organisation is that it allows nested
654structures to be built up by calling these functions as required. There
655are various macros used to help write the general 'i2d', 'd2i', 'new' and
656'free' functions. They are discussed in another file and would only be
657used by some-one wanting to add new structures to the library. As you
658might be able to guess, the process of writing ASN.1 files can be a bit CPU
659expensive for complex structures. I'm willing to live with this since the
660simpler library code make my life easier and hopefully most programs using
661these routines will have their execution profiles dominated by cipher or
662message digest routines.
663What follows is a list of 'TYPE' values and the corresponding ASN.1
664structure and where it is used.
665
666TYPE ASN.1
667ASN1_INTEGER INTEGER
668ASN1_BIT_STRING BIT STRING
669ASN1_OCTET_STRING OCTET STRING
670ASN1_OBJECT OBJECT IDENTIFIER
671ASN1_PRINTABLESTRING PrintableString
672ASN1_T61STRING T61String
673ASN1_IA5STRING IA5String
674ASN1_UTCTIME UTCTime
675ASN1_TYPE Any of the above mentioned types plus SEQUENCE and SET
676
677Most of the above mentioned types are actualled stored in the
678ASN1_BIT_STRING type and macros are used to differentiate between them.
679The 3 types used are
680
681typedef struct asn1_object_st
682 {
683 /* both null if a dynamic ASN1_OBJECT, one is
684 * defined if a 'static' ASN1_OBJECT */
685 char *sn,*ln;
686 int nid;
687 int length;
688 unsigned char *data;
689 } ASN1_OBJECT;
690This is used to store ASN1 OBJECTS. Read 'objects.doc' for details ono
691routines to manipulate this structure. 'sn' and 'ln' are used to hold text
692strings that represent the object (short name and long or lower case name).
693These are used by the 'OBJ' library. 'nid' is a number used by the OBJ
694library to uniquely identify objects. The ASN1 routines will populate the
695'length' and 'data' fields which will contain the bit string representing
696the object.
697
698typedef struct asn1_bit_string_st
699 {
700 int length;
701 int type;
702 unsigned char *data;
703 } ASN1_BIT_STRING;
704This structure is used to hold all the other base ASN1 types except for
705ASN1_UTCTIME (which is really just a 'char *'). Length is the number of
706bytes held in data and type is the ASN1 type of the object (there is a list
707in asn1.h).
708
709typedef struct asn1_type_st
710 {
711 int type;
712 union {
713 char *ptr;
714 ASN1_INTEGER * integer;
715 ASN1_BIT_STRING * bit_string;
716 ASN1_OCTET_STRING * octet_string;
717 ASN1_OBJECT * object;
718 ASN1_PRINTABLESTRING * printablestring;
719 ASN1_T61STRING * t61string;
720 ASN1_IA5STRING * ia5string;
721 ASN1_UTCTIME * utctime;
722 ASN1_BIT_STRING * set;
723 ASN1_BIT_STRING * sequence;
724 } value;
725 } ASN1_TYPE;
726This structure is used in a few places when 'any' type of object can be
727expected.
728
729X509 Certificate
730X509_CINF CertificateInfo
731X509_ALGOR AlgorithmIdentifier
732X509_NAME Name
733X509_NAME_ENTRY A single sub component of the name.
734X509_VAL Validity
735X509_PUBKEY SubjectPublicKeyInfo
736The above mentioned types are declared in x509.h. They are all quite
737straight forward except for the X509_NAME/X509_NAME_ENTRY pair.
738A X509_NAME is a STACK (see stack.doc) of X509_NAME_ENTRY's.
739typedef struct X509_name_entry_st
740 {
741 ASN1_OBJECT *object;
742 ASN1_BIT_STRING *value;
743 int set;
744 int size; /* temp variable */
745 } X509_NAME_ENTRY;
746The size is a temporary variable used by i2d_NAME and set is the set number
747for the particular NAME_ENTRY. A X509_NAME is encoded as a sequence of
748sequence of sets. Normally each set contains only a single item.
749Sometimes it contains more. Normally throughout this library there will be
750only one item per set. The set field contains the 'set' that this entry is
751a member of. So if you have just created a X509_NAME structure and
752populated it with X509_NAME_ENTRYs, you should then traverse the X509_NAME
753(which is just a STACK) and set the 'set/' field to incrementing numbers.
754For more details on why this is done, read the ASN.1 spec for Distinguished
755Names.
756
757X509_REQ CertificateRequest
758X509_REQ_INFO CertificateRequestInfo
759These are used to hold certificate requests.
760
761X509_CRL CertificateRevocationList
762These are used to hold a certificate revocation list
763
764RSAPrivateKey PrivateKeyInfo
765RSAPublicKey PublicKeyInfo
766Both these 'function groups' operate on 'RSA' structures (see rsa.doc).
767The difference is that the RSAPublicKey operations only manipulate the m
768and e fields in the RSA structure.
769
770DSAPrivateKey DSS private key
771DSAPublicKey DSS public key
772Both these 'function groups' operate on 'DSS' structures (see dsa.doc).
773The difference is that the RSAPublicKey operations only manipulate the
774XXX fields in the DSA structure.
775
776DHparams DHParameter
777This is used to hold the p and g value for The Diffie-Hellman operation.
778The function deal with the 'DH' strucure (see dh.doc).
779
780Now all of these function types can be used with several other functions to give
781quite useful set of general manipulation routines. Normally one would
782not uses these functions directly but use them via macros.
783
784char *ASN1_dup(int (*i2d)(),char *(*d2i)(),char *x);
785'x' is the input structure case to a 'char *', 'i2d' is the 'i2d_TYPE'
786function for the type that 'x' is and d2i is the 'd2i_TYPE' function for the
787type that 'x' is. As is obvious from the parameters, this function
788duplicates the strucutre by transforming it into the DER form and then
789re-loading it into a new strucutre and returning the new strucutre. This
790is obviously a bit cpu intensive but when faced with a complex dynamic
791structure this is the simplest programming approach. There are macros for
792duplicating the major data types but is simple to add extras.
793
794char *ASN1_d2i_fp(char *(*new)(),char *(*d2i)(),FILE *fp,unsigned char **x);
795'x' is a pointer to a pointer of the 'desired type'. new and d2i are the
796corresponding 'TYPE_new' and 'd2i_TYPE' functions for the type and 'fp' is
797an open file pointer to read from. This function reads from 'fp' as much
798data as it can and then uses 'd2i' to parse the bytes to load and return
799the parsed strucutre in 'x' (if it was non-NULL) and to actually return the
800strucutre. The behavior of 'x' is as per all the other d2i functions.
801
802char *ASN1_d2i_bio(char *(*new)(),char *(*d2i)(),BIO *fp,unsigned char **x);
803The 'BIO' is the new IO type being used in SSLeay (see bio.doc). This
804function is the same as ASN1_d2i_fp() except for the BIO argument.
805ASN1_d2i_fp() actually calls this function.
806
807int ASN1_i2d_fp(int (*i2d)(),FILE *out,unsigned char *x);
808'x' is converted to bytes by 'i2d' and then written to 'out'. ASN1_i2d_fp
809and ASN1_d2i_fp are not really symetric since ASN1_i2d_fp will read all
810available data from the file pointer before parsing a single item while
811ASN1_i2d_fp can be used to write a sequence of data objects. To read a
812series of objects from a file I would sugest loading the file into a buffer
813and calling the relevent 'd2i' functions.
814
815char *ASN1_d2i_bio(char *(*new)(),char *(*d2i)(),BIO *fp,unsigned char **x);
816This function is the same as ASN1_i2d_fp() except for the BIO argument.
817ASN1_i2d_fp() actually calls this function.
818
819char * PEM_ASN1_read(char *(*d2i)(),char *name,FILE *fp,char **x,int (*cb)());
820This function will read the next PEM encoded (base64) object of the same
821type as 'x' (loaded by the d2i function). 'name' is the name that is in
822the '-----BEGIN name-----' that designates the start of that object type.
823If the data is encrypted, 'cb' will be called to prompt for a password. If
824it is NULL a default function will be used to prompt from the password.
825'x' is delt with as per the standard 'd2i' function interface. This
826function can be used to read a series of objects from a file. While any
827data type can be encrypted (see PEM_ASN1_write) only RSA private keys tend
828to be encrypted.
829
830char * PEM_ASN1_read_bio(char *(*d2i)(),char *name,BIO *fp,
831 char **x,int (*cb)());
832Same as PEM_ASN1_read() except using a BIO. This is called by
833PEM_ASN1_read().
834
835int PEM_ASN1_write(int (*i2d)(),char *name,FILE *fp,char *x,EVP_CIPHER *enc,
836 unsigned char *kstr,int klen,int (*callback)());
837
838int PEM_ASN1_write_bio(int (*i2d)(),char *name,BIO *fp,
839 char *x,EVP_CIPHER *enc,unsigned char *kstr,int klen,
840 int (*callback)());
841
842int ASN1_sign(int (*i2d)(), X509_ALGOR *algor1, X509_ALGOR *algor2,
843 ASN1_BIT_STRING *signature, char *data, RSA *rsa, EVP_MD *type);
844int ASN1_verify(int (*i2d)(), X509_ALGOR *algor1,
845 ASN1_BIT_STRING *signature,char *data, RSA *rsa);
846
847int ASN1_BIT_STRING_cmp(ASN1_BIT_STRING *a, ASN1_BIT_STRING *b);
848ASN1_BIT_STRING *ASN1_BIT_STRING_type_new(int type );
849
850int ASN1_UTCTIME_check(ASN1_UTCTIME *a);
851void ASN1_UTCTIME_print(BIO *fp,ASN1_UTCTIME *a);
852ASN1_UTCTIME *ASN1_UTCTIME_dup(ASN1_UTCTIME *a);
853
854ASN1_BIT_STRING *d2i_asn1_print_type(ASN1_BIT_STRING **a,unsigned char **pp,
855 long length,int type);
856
857int i2d_ASN1_SET(STACK *a, unsigned char **pp,
858 int (*func)(), int ex_tag, int ex_class);
859STACK * d2i_ASN1_SET(STACK **a, unsigned char **pp, long length,
860 char *(*func)(), int ex_tag, int ex_class);
861
862int i2a_ASN1_OBJECT(BIO *bp,ASN1_OBJECT *object);
863int i2a_ASN1_INTEGER(BIO *bp, ASN1_INTEGER *a);
864int a2i_ASN1_INTEGER(BIO *bp,ASN1_INTEGER *bs,char *buf,int size);
865
866int ASN1_INTEGER_set(ASN1_INTEGER *a, long v);
867long ASN1_INTEGER_get(ASN1_INTEGER *a);
868ASN1_INTEGER *BN_to_ASN1_INTEGER(BIGNUM *bn, ASN1_INTEGER *ai);
869BIGNUM *ASN1_INTEGER_to_BN(ASN1_INTEGER *ai,BIGNUM *bn);
870
871/* given a string, return the correct type. Max is the maximum number
872 * of bytes to parse. It stops parsing when 'max' bytes have been
873 * processed or a '\0' is hit */
874int ASN1_PRINTABLE_type(unsigned char *s,int max);
875
876void ASN1_parse(BIO *fp,unsigned char *pp,long len);
877
878int i2d_ASN1_bytes(ASN1_BIT_STRING *a, unsigned char **pp, int tag, int class);
879ASN1_BIT_STRING *d2i_ASN1_bytes(ASN1_OCTET_STRING **a, unsigned char **pp,
880 long length, int Ptag, int Pclass);
881
882/* PARSING */
883int asn1_Finish(ASN1_CTX *c);
884
885/* SPECIALS */
886int ASN1_get_object(unsigned char **pp, long *plength, int *ptag,
887 int *pclass, long omax);
888int ASN1_check_infinite_end(unsigned char **p,long len);
889void ASN1_put_object(unsigned char **pp, int constructed, int length,
890 int tag, int class);
891int ASN1_object_size(int constructed, int length, int tag);
892
893X509 * X509_get_cert(CERTIFICATE_CTX *ctx,X509_NAME * name,X509 *tmp_x509);
894int X509_add_cert(CERTIFICATE_CTX *ctx,X509 *);
895
896char * X509_cert_verify_error_string(int n);
897int X509_add_cert_file(CERTIFICATE_CTX *c,char *file, int type);
898char * X509_gmtime (char *s, long adj);
899int X509_add_cert_dir (CERTIFICATE_CTX *c,char *dir, int type);
900int X509_load_verify_locations (CERTIFICATE_CTX *ctx,
901 char *file_env, char *dir_env);
902int X509_set_default_verify_paths(CERTIFICATE_CTX *cts);
903X509 * X509_new_D2i_X509(int len, unsigned char *p);
904char * X509_get_default_cert_area(void );
905char * X509_get_default_cert_dir(void );
906char * X509_get_default_cert_file(void );
907char * X509_get_default_cert_dir_env(void );
908char * X509_get_default_cert_file_env(void );
909char * X509_get_default_private_dir(void );
910X509_REQ *X509_X509_TO_req(X509 *x, RSA *rsa);
911int X509_cert_verify(CERTIFICATE_CTX *ctx,X509 *xs, int (*cb)());
912
913CERTIFICATE_CTX *CERTIFICATE_CTX_new();
914void CERTIFICATE_CTX_free(CERTIFICATE_CTX *c);
915
916void X509_NAME_print(BIO *fp, X509_NAME *name, int obase);
917int X509_print_fp(FILE *fp,X509 *x);
918int X509_print(BIO *fp,X509 *x);
919
920X509_INFO * X509_INFO_new(void);
921void X509_INFO_free(X509_INFO *a);
922
923char * X509_NAME_oneline(X509_NAME *a);
924
925#define X509_verify(x,rsa)
926#define X509_REQ_verify(x,rsa)
927#define X509_CRL_verify(x,rsa)
928
929#define X509_sign(x,rsa,md)
930#define X509_REQ_sign(x,rsa,md)
931#define X509_CRL_sign(x,rsa,md)
932
933#define X509_dup(x509)
934#define d2i_X509_fp(fp,x509)
935#define i2d_X509_fp(fp,x509)
936#define d2i_X509_bio(bp,x509)
937#define i2d_X509_bio(bp,x509)
938
939#define X509_CRL_dup(crl)
940#define d2i_X509_CRL_fp(fp,crl)
941#define i2d_X509_CRL_fp(fp,crl)
942#define d2i_X509_CRL_bio(bp,crl)
943#define i2d_X509_CRL_bio(bp,crl)
944
945#define X509_REQ_dup(req)
946#define d2i_X509_REQ_fp(fp,req)
947#define i2d_X509_REQ_fp(fp,req)
948#define d2i_X509_REQ_bio(bp,req)
949#define i2d_X509_REQ_bio(bp,req)
950
951#define RSAPrivateKey_dup(rsa)
952#define d2i_RSAPrivateKey_fp(fp,rsa)
953#define i2d_RSAPrivateKey_fp(fp,rsa)
954#define d2i_RSAPrivateKey_bio(bp,rsa)
955#define i2d_RSAPrivateKey_bio(bp,rsa)
956
957#define X509_NAME_dup(xn)
958#define X509_NAME_ENTRY_dup(ne)
959
960void X509_REQ_print_fp(FILE *fp,X509_REQ *req);
961void X509_REQ_print(BIO *fp,X509_REQ *req);
962
963RSA *X509_REQ_extract_key(X509_REQ *req);
964RSA *X509_extract_key(X509 *x509);
965
966int X509_issuer_and_serial_cmp(X509 *a, X509 *b);
967unsigned long X509_issuer_and_serial_hash(X509 *a);
968
969X509_NAME * X509_get_issuer_name(X509 *a);
970int X509_issuer_name_cmp(X509 *a, X509 *b);
971unsigned long X509_issuer_name_hash(X509 *a);
972
973X509_NAME * X509_get_subject_name(X509 *a);
974int X509_subject_name_cmp(X509 *a,X509 *b);
975unsigned long X509_subject_name_hash(X509 *x);
976
977int X509_NAME_cmp (X509_NAME *a, X509_NAME *b);
978unsigned long X509_NAME_hash(X509_NAME *x);
979
980
981==== bio.doc ========================================================
982
983BIO Routines
984
985This documentation is rather sparse, you are probably best
986off looking at the code for specific details.
987
988The BIO library is a IO abstraction that was originally
989inspired by the need to have callbacks to perform IO to FILE
990pointers when using Windows 3.1 DLLs. There are two types
991of BIO; a source/sink type and a filter type.
992The source/sink methods are as follows:
993- BIO_s_mem() memory buffer - a read/write byte array that
994 grows until memory runs out :-).
995- BIO_s_file() FILE pointer - A wrapper around the normal
996 'FILE *' commands, good for use with stdin/stdout.
997- BIO_s_fd() File descriptor - A wrapper around file
998 descriptors, often used with pipes.
999- BIO_s_socket() Socket - Used around sockets. It is
1000 mostly in the Microsoft world that sockets are different
1001 from file descriptors and there are all those ugly winsock
1002 commands.
1003- BIO_s_null() Null - read nothing and write nothing.; a
1004 useful endpoint for filter type BIO's specifically things
1005 like the message digest BIO.
1006
1007The filter types are
1008- BIO_f_buffer() IO buffering - does output buffering into
1009 larger chunks and performs input buffering to allow gets()
1010 type functions.
1011- BIO_f_md() Message digest - a transparent filter that can
1012 be asked to return a message digest for the data that has
1013 passed through it.
1014- BIO_f_cipher() Encrypt or decrypt all data passing
1015 through the filter.
1016- BIO_f_base64() Base64 decode on read and encode on write.
1017- BIO_f_ssl() A filter that performs SSL encryption on the
1018 data sent through it.
1019
1020Base BIO functions.
1021The BIO library has a set of base functions that are
1022implemented for each particular type. Filter BIOs will
1023normally call the equivalent function on the source/sink BIO
1024that they are layered on top of after they have performed
1025some modification to the data stream. Multiple filter BIOs
1026can be 'push' into a stack of modifers, so to read from a
1027file, unbase64 it, then decrypt it, a BIO_f_cipher,
1028BIO_f_base64 and a BIO_s_file would probably be used. If a
1029sha-1 and md5 message digest needed to be generated, a stack
1030two BIO_f_md() BIOs and a BIO_s_null() BIO could be used.
1031The base functions are
1032- BIO *BIO_new(BIO_METHOD *type); Create a new BIO of type 'type'.
1033- int BIO_free(BIO *a); Free a BIO structure. Depending on
1034 the configuration, this will free the underlying data
1035 object for a source/sink BIO.
1036- int BIO_read(BIO *b, char *data, int len); Read upto 'len'
1037 bytes into 'data'.
1038- int BIO_gets(BIO *bp,char *buf, int size); Depending on
1039 the BIO, this can either be a 'get special' or a get one
1040 line of data, as per fgets();
1041- int BIO_write(BIO *b, char *data, int len); Write 'len'
1042 bytes from 'data' to the 'b' BIO.
1043- int BIO_puts(BIO *bp,char *buf); Either a 'put special' or
1044 a write null terminated string as per fputs().
1045- long BIO_ctrl(BIO *bp,int cmd,long larg,char *parg); A
1046 control function which is used to manipulate the BIO
1047 structure and modify it's state and or report on it. This
1048 function is just about never used directly, rather it
1049 should be used in conjunction with BIO_METHOD specific
1050 macros.
1051- BIO *BIO_push(BIO *new_top, BIO *old); new_top is apped to the
1052 top of the 'old' BIO list. new_top should be a filter BIO.
1053 All writes will go through 'new_top' first and last on read.
1054 'old' is returned.
1055- BIO *BIO_pop(BIO *bio); the new topmost BIO is returned, NULL if
1056 there are no more.
1057
1058If a particular low level BIO method is not supported
1059(normally BIO_gets()), -2 will be returned if that method is
1060called. Otherwise the IO methods (read, write, gets, puts)
1061will return the number of bytes read or written, and 0 or -1
1062for error (or end of input). For the -1 case,
1063BIO_should_retry(bio) can be called to determine if it was a
1064genuine error or a temporary problem. -2 will also be
1065returned if the BIO has not been initalised yet, in all
1066cases, the correct error codes are set (accessible via the
1067ERR library).
1068
1069
1070The following functions are convenience functions:
1071- int BIO_printf(BIO *bio, char * format, ..); printf but
1072 to a BIO handle.
1073- long BIO_ctrl_int(BIO *bp,int cmd,long larg,int iarg); a
1074 convenience function to allow a different argument types
1075 to be passed to BIO_ctrl().
1076- int BIO_dump(BIO *b,char *bytes,int len); output 'len'
1077 bytes from 'bytes' in a hex dump debug format.
1078- long BIO_debug_callback(BIO *bio, int cmd, char *argp, int
1079 argi, long argl, long ret) - a default debug BIO callback,
1080 this is mentioned below. To use this one normally has to
1081 use the BIO_set_callback_arg() function to assign an
1082 output BIO for the callback to use.
1083- BIO *BIO_find_type(BIO *bio,int type); when there is a 'stack'
1084 of BIOs, this function scan the list and returns the first
1085 that is of type 'type', as listed in buffer.h under BIO_TYPE_XXX.
1086- void BIO_free_all(BIO *bio); Free the bio and all other BIOs
1087 in the list. It walks the bio->next_bio list.
1088
1089
1090
1091Extra commands are normally implemented as macros calling BIO_ctrl().
1092- BIO_number_read(BIO *bio) - the number of bytes processed
1093 by BIO_read(bio,.).
1094- BIO_number_written(BIO *bio) - the number of bytes written
1095 by BIO_write(bio,.).
1096- BIO_reset(BIO *bio) - 'reset' the BIO.
1097- BIO_eof(BIO *bio) - non zero if we are at the current end
1098 of input.
1099- BIO_set_close(BIO *bio, int close_flag) - set the close flag.
1100- BIO_get_close(BIO *bio) - return the close flag.
1101 BIO_pending(BIO *bio) - return the number of bytes waiting
1102 to be read (normally buffered internally).
1103- BIO_flush(BIO *bio) - output any data waiting to be output.
1104- BIO_should_retry(BIO *io) - after a BIO_read/BIO_write
1105 operation returns 0 or -1, a call to this function will
1106 return non zero if you should retry the call later (this
1107 is for non-blocking IO).
1108- BIO_should_read(BIO *io) - we should retry when data can
1109 be read.
1110- BIO_should_write(BIO *io) - we should retry when data can
1111 be written.
1112- BIO_method_name(BIO *io) - return a string for the method name.
1113- BIO_method_type(BIO *io) - return the unique ID of the BIO method.
1114- BIO_set_callback(BIO *io, long (*callback)(BIO *io, int
1115 cmd, char *argp, int argi, long argl, long ret); - sets
1116 the debug callback.
1117- BIO_get_callback(BIO *io) - return the assigned function
1118 as mentioned above.
1119- BIO_set_callback_arg(BIO *io, char *arg) - assign some
1120 data against the BIO. This is normally used by the debug
1121 callback but could in reality be used for anything. To
1122 get an idea of how all this works, have a look at the code
1123 in the default debug callback mentioned above. The
1124 callback can modify the return values.
1125
1126Details of the BIO_METHOD structure.
1127typedef struct bio_method_st
1128 {
1129 int type;
1130 char *name;
1131 int (*bwrite)();
1132 int (*bread)();
1133 int (*bputs)();
1134 int (*bgets)();
1135 long (*ctrl)();
1136 int (*create)();
1137 int (*destroy)();
1138 } BIO_METHOD;
1139
1140The 'type' is the numeric type of the BIO, these are listed in buffer.h;
1141'Name' is a textual representation of the BIO 'type'.
1142The 7 function pointers point to the respective function
1143methods, some of which can be NULL if not implemented.
1144The BIO structure
1145typedef struct bio_st
1146 {
1147 BIO_METHOD *method;
1148 long (*callback)(BIO * bio, int mode, char *argp, int
1149 argi, long argl, long ret);
1150 char *cb_arg; /* first argument for the callback */
1151 int init;
1152 int shutdown;
1153 int flags; /* extra storage */
1154 int num;
1155 char *ptr;
1156 struct bio_st *next_bio; /* used by filter BIOs */
1157 int references;
1158 unsigned long num_read;
1159 unsigned long num_write;
1160 } BIO;
1161
1162- 'Method' is the BIO method.
1163- 'callback', when configured, is called before and after
1164 each BIO method is called for that particular BIO. This
1165 is intended primarily for debugging and of informational feedback.
1166- 'init' is 0 when the BIO can be used for operation.
1167 Often, after a BIO is created, a number of operations may
1168 need to be performed before it is available for use. An
1169 example is for BIO_s_sock(). A socket needs to be
1170 assigned to the BIO before it can be used.
1171- 'shutdown', this flag indicates if the underlying
1172 comunication primative being used should be closed/freed
1173 when the BIO is closed.
1174- 'flags' is used to hold extra state. It is primarily used
1175 to hold information about why a non-blocking operation
1176 failed and to record startup protocol information for the
1177 SSL BIO.
1178- 'num' and 'ptr' are used to hold instance specific state
1179 like file descriptors or local data structures.
1180- 'next_bio' is used by filter BIOs to hold the pointer of the
1181 next BIO in the chain. written data is sent to this BIO and
1182 data read is taken from it.
1183- 'references' is used to indicate the number of pointers to
1184 this structure. This needs to be '1' before a call to
1185 BIO_free() is made if the BIO_free() function is to
1186 actually free() the structure, otherwise the reference
1187 count is just decreased. The actual BIO subsystem does
1188 not really use this functionality but it is useful when
1189 used in more advanced applicaion.
1190- num_read and num_write are the total number of bytes
1191 read/written via the 'read()' and 'write()' methods.
1192
1193BIO_ctrl operations.
1194The following is the list of standard commands passed as the
1195second parameter to BIO_ctrl() and should be supported by
1196all BIO as best as possible. Some are optional, some are
1197manditory, in any case, where is makes sense, a filter BIO
1198should pass such requests to underlying BIO's.
1199- BIO_CTRL_RESET - Reset the BIO back to an initial state.
1200- BIO_CTRL_EOF - return 0 if we are not at the end of input,
1201 non 0 if we are.
1202- BIO_CTRL_INFO - BIO specific special command, normal
1203 information return.
1204- BIO_CTRL_SET - set IO specific parameter.
1205- BIO_CTRL_GET - get IO specific parameter.
1206- BIO_CTRL_GET_CLOSE - Get the close on BIO_free() flag, one
1207 of BIO_CLOSE or BIO_NOCLOSE.
1208- BIO_CTRL_SET_CLOSE - Set the close on BIO_free() flag.
1209- BIO_CTRL_PENDING - Return the number of bytes available
1210 for instant reading
1211- BIO_CTRL_FLUSH - Output pending data, return number of bytes output.
1212- BIO_CTRL_SHOULD_RETRY - After an IO error (-1 returned)
1213 should we 'retry' when IO is possible on the underlying IO object.
1214- BIO_CTRL_RETRY_TYPE - What kind of IO are we waiting on.
1215
1216The following command is a special BIO_s_file() specific option.
1217- BIO_CTRL_SET_FILENAME - specify a file to open for IO.
1218
1219The BIO_CTRL_RETRY_TYPE needs a little more explanation.
1220When performing non-blocking IO, or say reading on a memory
1221BIO, when no data is present (or cannot be written),
1222BIO_read() and/or BIO_write() will return -1.
1223BIO_should_retry(bio) will return true if this is due to an
1224IO condition rather than an actual error. In the case of
1225BIO_s_mem(), a read when there is no data will return -1 and
1226a should retry when there is more 'read' data.
1227The retry type is deduced from 2 macros
1228BIO_should_read(bio) and BIO_should_write(bio).
1229Now while it may appear obvious that a BIO_read() failure
1230should indicate that a retry should be performed when more
1231read data is available, this is often not true when using
1232things like an SSL BIO. During the SSL protocol startup
1233multiple reads and writes are performed, triggered by any
1234SSL_read or SSL_write.
1235So to write code that will transparently handle either a
1236socket or SSL BIO,
1237 i=BIO_read(bio,..)
1238 if (I == -1)
1239 {
1240 if (BIO_should_retry(bio))
1241 {
1242 if (BIO_should_read(bio))
1243 {
1244 /* call us again when BIO can be read */
1245 }
1246 if (BIO_should_write(bio))
1247 {
1248 /* call us again when BIO can be written */
1249 }
1250 }
1251 }
1252
1253At this point in time only read and write conditions can be
1254used but in the future I can see the situation for other
1255conditions, specifically with SSL there could be a condition
1256of a X509 certificate lookup taking place and so the non-
1257blocking BIO_read would require a retry when the certificate
1258lookup subsystem has finished it's lookup. This is all
1259makes more sense and is easy to use in a event loop type
1260setup.
1261When using the SSL BIO, either SSL_read() or SSL_write()s
1262can be called during the protocol startup and things will
1263still work correctly.
1264The nice aspect of the use of the BIO_should_retry() macro
1265is that all the errno codes that indicate a non-fatal error
1266are encapsulated in one place. The Windows specific error
1267codes and WSAGetLastError() calls are also hidden from the
1268application.
1269
1270Notes on each BIO method.
1271Normally buffer.h is just required but depending on the
1272BIO_METHOD, ssl.h or evp.h will also be required.
1273
1274BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_mem(void);
1275- BIO_set_mem_buf(BIO *bio, BUF_MEM *bm, int close_flag) -
1276 set the underlying BUF_MEM structure for the BIO to use.
1277- BIO_get_mem_ptr(BIO *bio, char **pp) - if pp is not NULL,
1278 set it to point to the memory array and return the number
1279 of bytes available.
1280A read/write BIO. Any data written is appended to the
1281memory array and any read is read from the front. This BIO
1282can be used for read/write at the same time. BIO_gets() is
1283supported in the fgets() sense.
1284BIO_CTRL_INFO can be used to retrieve pointers to the memory
1285buffer and it's length.
1286
1287BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_file(void);
1288- BIO_set_fp(BIO *bio, FILE *fp, int close_flag) - set 'FILE *' to use.
1289- BIO_get_fp(BIO *bio, FILE **fp) - get the 'FILE *' in use.
1290- BIO_read_filename(BIO *bio, char *name) - read from file.
1291- BIO_write_filename(BIO *bio, char *name) - write to file.
1292- BIO_append_filename(BIO *bio, char *name) - append to file.
1293This BIO sits over the normal system fread()/fgets() type
1294functions. Gets() is supported. This BIO in theory could be
1295used for read and write but it is best to think of each BIO
1296of this type as either a read or a write BIO, not both.
1297
1298BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_socket(void);
1299BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_fd(void);
1300- BIO_sock_should_retry(int i) - the underlying function
1301 used to determine if a call should be retried; the
1302 argument is the '0' or '-1' returned by the previous BIO
1303 operation.
1304- BIO_fd_should_retry(int i) - same as the
1305- BIO_sock_should_retry() except that it is different internally.
1306- BIO_set_fd(BIO *bio, int fd, int close_flag) - set the
1307 file descriptor to use
1308- BIO_get_fd(BIO *bio, int *fd) - get the file descriptor.
1309These two methods are very similar. Gets() is not
1310supported, if you want this functionality, put a
1311BIO_f_buffer() onto it. This BIO is bi-directional if the
1312underlying file descriptor is. This is normally the case
1313for sockets but not the case for stdio descriptors.
1314
1315BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_null(void);
1316Read and write as much data as you like, it all disappears
1317into this BIO.
1318
1319BIO_METHOD *BIO_f_buffer(void);
1320- BIO_get_buffer_num_lines(BIO *bio) - return the number of
1321 complete lines in the buffer.
1322- BIO_set_buffer_size(BIO *bio, long size) - set the size of
1323 the buffers.
1324This type performs input and output buffering. It performs
1325both at the same time. The size of the buffer can be set
1326via the set buffer size option. Data buffered for output is
1327only written when the buffer fills.
1328
1329BIO_METHOD *BIO_f_ssl(void);
1330- BIO_set_ssl(BIO *bio, SSL *ssl, int close_flag) - the SSL
1331 structure to use.
1332- BIO_get_ssl(BIO *bio, SSL **ssl) - get the SSL structure
1333 in use.
1334The SSL bio is a little different from normal BIOs because
1335the underlying SSL structure is a little different. A SSL
1336structure performs IO via a read and write BIO. These can
1337be different and are normally set via the
1338SSL_set_rbio()/SSL_set_wbio() calls. The SSL_set_fd() calls
1339are just wrappers that create socket BIOs and then call
1340SSL_set_bio() where the read and write BIOs are the same.
1341The BIO_push() operation makes the SSLs IO BIOs the same, so
1342make sure the BIO pushed is capable of two directional
1343traffic. If it is not, you will have to install the BIOs
1344via the more conventional SSL_set_bio() call. BIO_pop() will retrieve
1345the 'SSL read' BIO.
1346
1347BIO_METHOD *BIO_f_md(void);
1348- BIO_set_md(BIO *bio, EVP_MD *md) - set the message digest
1349 to use.
1350- BIO_get_md(BIO *bio, EVP_MD **mdp) - return the digest
1351 method in use in mdp, return 0 if not set yet.
1352- BIO_reset() reinitializes the digest (EVP_DigestInit())
1353 and passes the reset to the underlying BIOs.
1354All data read or written via BIO_read() or BIO_write() to
1355this BIO will be added to the calculated digest. This
1356implies that this BIO is only one directional. If read and
1357write operations are performed, two separate BIO_f_md() BIOs
1358are reuqired to generate digests on both the input and the
1359output. BIO_gets(BIO *bio, char *md, int size) will place the
1360generated digest into 'md' and return the number of bytes.
1361The EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE should probably be used to size the 'md'
1362array. Reading the digest will also reset it.
1363
1364BIO_METHOD *BIO_f_cipher(void);
1365- BIO_reset() reinitializes the cipher.
1366- BIO_flush() should be called when the last bytes have been
1367 output to flush the final block of block ciphers.
1368- BIO_get_cipher_status(BIO *b), when called after the last
1369 read from a cipher BIO, returns non-zero if the data
1370 decrypted correctly, otherwise, 0.
1371- BIO_set_cipher(BIO *b, EVP_CIPHER *c, unsigned char *key,
1372 unsigned char *iv, int encrypt) This function is used to
1373 setup a cipher BIO. The length of key and iv are
1374 specified by the choice of EVP_CIPHER. Encrypt is 1 to
1375 encrypt and 0 to decrypt.
1376
1377BIO_METHOD *BIO_f_base64(void);
1378- BIO_flush() should be called when the last bytes have been output.
1379This BIO base64 encodes when writing and base64 decodes when
1380reading. It will scan the input until a suitable begin line
1381is found. After reading data, BIO_reset() will reset the
1382BIO to start scanning again. Do not mix reading and writing
1383on the same base64 BIO. It is meant as a single stream BIO.
1384
1385Directions type
1386both BIO_s_mem()
1387one/both BIO_s_file()
1388both BIO_s_fd()
1389both BIO_s_socket()
1390both BIO_s_null()
1391both BIO_f_buffer()
1392one BIO_f_md()
1393one BIO_f_cipher()
1394one BIO_f_base64()
1395both BIO_f_ssl()
1396
1397It is easy to mix one and two directional BIOs, all one has
1398to do is to keep two separate BIO pointers for reading and
1399writing and be careful about usage of underlying BIOs. The
1400SSL bio by it's very nature has to be two directional but
1401the BIO_push() command will push the one BIO into the SSL
1402BIO for both reading and writing.
1403
1404The best example program to look at is apps/enc.c and/or perhaps apps/dgst.c.
1405
1406
1407==== blowfish.doc ========================================================
1408
1409The Blowfish library.
1410
1411Blowfish is a block cipher that operates on 64bit (8 byte) quantities. It
1412uses variable size key, but 128bit (16 byte) key would normally be considered
1413good. It can be used in all the modes that DES can be used. This
1414library implements the ecb, cbc, cfb64, ofb64 modes.
1415
1416Blowfish is quite a bit faster that DES, and much faster than IDEA or
1417RC2. It is one of the faster block ciphers.
1418
1419For all calls that have an 'input' and 'output' variables, they can be the
1420same.
1421
1422This library requires the inclusion of 'blowfish.h'.
1423
1424All of the encryption functions take what is called an BF_KEY as an
1425argument. An BF_KEY is an expanded form of the Blowfish key.
1426For all modes of the Blowfish algorithm, the BF_KEY used for
1427decryption is the same one that was used for encryption.
1428
1429The define BF_ENCRYPT is passed to specify encryption for the functions
1430that require an encryption/decryption flag. BF_DECRYPT is passed to
1431specify decryption.
1432
1433Please note that any of the encryption modes specified in my DES library
1434could be used with Blowfish. I have only implemented ecb, cbc, cfb64 and
1435ofb64 for the following reasons.
1436- ecb is the basic Blowfish encryption.
1437- cbc is the normal 'chaining' form for block ciphers.
1438- cfb64 can be used to encrypt single characters, therefore input and output
1439 do not need to be a multiple of 8.
1440- ofb64 is similar to cfb64 but is more like a stream cipher, not as
1441 secure (not cipher feedback) but it does not have an encrypt/decrypt mode.
1442- If you want triple Blowfish, thats 384 bits of key and you must be totally
1443 obsessed with security. Still, if you want it, it is simple enough to
1444 copy the function from the DES library and change the des_encrypt to
1445 BF_encrypt; an exercise left for the paranoid reader :-).
1446
1447The functions are as follows:
1448
1449void BF_set_key(
1450BF_KEY *ks;
1451int len;
1452unsigned char *key;
1453 BF_set_key converts an 'len' byte key into a BF_KEY.
1454 A 'ks' is an expanded form of the 'key' which is used to
1455 perform actual encryption. It can be regenerated from the Blowfish key
1456 so it only needs to be kept when encryption or decryption is about
1457 to occur. Don't save or pass around BF_KEY's since they
1458 are CPU architecture dependent, 'key's are not. Blowfish is an
1459 interesting cipher in that it can be used with a variable length
1460 key. 'len' is the length of 'key' to be used as the key.
1461 A 'len' of 16 is recomended by me, but blowfish can use upto
1462 72 bytes. As a warning, blowfish has a very very slow set_key
1463 function, it actually runs BF_encrypt 521 times.
1464
1465void BF_encrypt(unsigned long *data, BF_KEY *key);
1466void BF_decrypt(unsigned long *data, BF_KEY *key);
1467 These are the Blowfish encryption function that gets called by just
1468 about every other Blowfish routine in the library. You should not
1469 use this function except to implement 'modes' of Blowfish.
1470 I say this because the
1471 functions that call this routine do the conversion from 'char *' to
1472 long, and this needs to be done to make sure 'non-aligned' memory
1473 access do not occur.
1474 Data is a pointer to 2 unsigned long's and key is the
1475 BF_KEY to use.
1476
1477void BF_ecb_encrypt(
1478unsigned char *in,
1479unsigned char *out,
1480BF_KEY *key,
1481int encrypt);
1482 This is the basic Electronic Code Book form of Blowfish (in DES this
1483 mode is called Electronic Code Book so I'm going to use the term
1484 for blowfish as well.
1485 Input is encrypted into output using the key represented by
1486 key. Depending on the encrypt, encryption or
1487 decryption occurs. Input is 8 bytes long and output is 8 bytes.
1488
1489void BF_cbc_encrypt(
1490unsigned char *in,
1491unsigned char *out,
1492long length,
1493BF_KEY *ks,
1494unsigned char *ivec,
1495int encrypt);
1496 This routine implements Blowfish in Cipher Block Chaining mode.
1497 Input, which should be a multiple of 8 bytes is encrypted
1498 (or decrypted) to output which will also be a multiple of 8 bytes.
1499 The number of bytes is in length (and from what I've said above,
1500 should be a multiple of 8). If length is not a multiple of 8, bad
1501 things will probably happen. ivec is the initialisation vector.
1502 This function updates iv after each call so that it can be passed to
1503 the next call to BF_cbc_encrypt().
1504
1505void BF_cfb64_encrypt(
1506unsigned char *in,
1507unsigned char *out,
1508long length,
1509BF_KEY *schedule,
1510unsigned char *ivec,
1511int *num,
1512int encrypt);
1513 This is one of the more useful functions in this Blowfish library, it
1514 implements CFB mode of Blowfish with 64bit feedback.
1515 This allows you to encrypt an arbitrary number of bytes,
1516 you do not require 8 byte padding. Each call to this
1517 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
1518 and num. Num contains 'how far' we are though ivec.
1519 'Encrypt' is used to indicate encryption or decryption.
1520 CFB64 mode operates by using the cipher to generate a stream
1521 of bytes which is used to encrypt the plain text.
1522 The cipher text is then encrypted to generate the next 64 bits to
1523 be xored (incrementally) with the next 64 bits of plain
1524 text. As can be seen from this, to encrypt or decrypt,
1525 the same 'cipher stream' needs to be generated but the way the next
1526 block of data is gathered for encryption is different for
1527 encryption and decryption.
1528
1529void BF_ofb64_encrypt(
1530unsigned char *in,
1531unsigned char *out,
1532long length,
1533BF_KEY *schedule,
1534unsigned char *ivec,
1535int *num);
1536 This functions implements OFB mode of Blowfish with 64bit feedback.
1537 This allows you to encrypt an arbitrary number of bytes,
1538 you do not require 8 byte padding. Each call to this
1539 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
1540 and num. Num contains 'how far' we are though ivec.
1541 This is in effect a stream cipher, there is no encryption or
1542 decryption mode.
1543
1544For reading passwords, I suggest using des_read_pw_string() from my DES library.
1545To generate a password from a text string, I suggest using MD5 (or MD2) to
1546produce a 16 byte message digest that can then be passed directly to
1547BF_set_key().
1548
1549=====
1550For more information about the specific Blowfish modes in this library
1551(ecb, cbc, cfb and ofb), read the section entitled 'Modes of DES' from the
1552documentation on my DES library. What is said about DES is directly
1553applicable for Blowfish.
1554
1555
1556==== bn.doc ========================================================
1557
1558The Big Number library.
1559
1560#include "bn.h" when using this library.
1561
1562This big number library was written for use in implementing the RSA and DH
1563public key encryption algorithms. As such, features such as negative
1564numbers have not been extensively tested but they should work as expected.
1565This library uses dynamic memory allocation for storing its data structures
1566and so there are no limit on the size of the numbers manipulated by these
1567routines but there is always the requirement to check return codes from
1568functions just in case a memory allocation error has occurred.
1569
1570The basic object in this library is a BIGNUM. It is used to hold a single
1571large integer. This type should be considered opaque and fields should not
1572be modified or accessed directly.
1573typedef struct bignum_st
1574 {
1575 int top; /* Index of last used d. */
1576 BN_ULONG *d; /* Pointer to an array of 'BITS2' bit chunks. */
1577 int max; /* Size of the d array. */
1578 int neg;
1579 } BIGNUM;
1580The big number is stored in a malloced array of BN_ULONG's. A BN_ULONG can
1581be either 16, 32 or 64 bits in size, depending on the 'number of bits'
1582specified in bn.h.
1583The 'd' field is this array. 'max' is the size of the 'd' array that has
1584been allocated. 'top' is the 'last' entry being used, so for a value of 4,
1585bn.d[0]=4 and bn.top=1. 'neg' is 1 if the number is negative.
1586When a BIGNUM is '0', the 'd' field can be NULL and top == 0.
1587
1588Various routines in this library require the use of 'temporary' BIGNUM
1589variables during their execution. Due to the use of dynamic memory
1590allocation to create BIGNUMs being rather expensive when used in
1591conjunction with repeated subroutine calls, the BN_CTX structure is
1592used. This structure contains BN_CTX BIGNUMs. BN_CTX
1593is the maximum number of temporary BIGNUMs any publicly exported
1594function will use.
1595
1596#define BN_CTX 12
1597typedef struct bignum_ctx
1598 {
1599 int tos; /* top of stack */
1600 BIGNUM *bn[BN_CTX]; /* The variables */
1601 } BN_CTX;
1602
1603The functions that follow have been grouped according to function. Most
1604arithmetic functions return a result in the first argument, sometimes this
1605first argument can also be an input parameter, sometimes it cannot. These
1606restrictions are documented.
1607
1608extern BIGNUM *BN_value_one;
1609There is one variable defined by this library, a BIGNUM which contains the
1610number 1. This variable is useful for use in comparisons and assignment.
1611
1612Get Size functions.
1613
1614int BN_num_bits(BIGNUM *a);
1615 This function returns the size of 'a' in bits.
1616
1617int BN_num_bytes(BIGNUM *a);
1618 This function (macro) returns the size of 'a' in bytes.
1619 For conversion of BIGNUMs to byte streams, this is the number of
1620 bytes the output string will occupy. If the output byte
1621 format specifies that the 'top' bit indicates if the number is
1622 signed, so an extra '0' byte is required if the top bit on a
1623 positive number is being written, it is upto the application to
1624 make this adjustment. Like I said at the start, I don't
1625 really support negative numbers :-).
1626
1627Creation/Destruction routines.
1628
1629BIGNUM *BN_new();
1630 Return a new BIGNUM object. The number initially has a value of 0. If
1631 there is an error, NULL is returned.
1632
1633void BN_free(BIGNUM *a);
1634 Free()s a BIGNUM.
1635
1636void BN_clear(BIGNUM *a);
1637 Sets 'a' to a value of 0 and also zeros all unused allocated
1638 memory. This function is used to clear a variable of 'sensitive'
1639 data that was held in it.
1640
1641void BN_clear_free(BIGNUM *a);
1642 This function zeros the memory used by 'a' and then free()'s it.
1643 This function should be used to BN_free() BIGNUMS that have held
1644 sensitive numeric values like RSA private key values. Both this
1645 function and BN_clear tend to only be used by RSA and DH routines.
1646
1647BN_CTX *BN_CTX_new(void);
1648 Returns a new BN_CTX. NULL on error.
1649
1650void BN_CTX_free(BN_CTX *c);
1651 Free a BN_CTX structure. The BIGNUMs in 'c' are BN_clear_free()ed.
1652
1653BIGNUM *bn_expand(BIGNUM *b, int bits);
1654 This is an internal function that should not normally be used. It
1655 ensures that 'b' has enough room for a 'bits' bit number. It is
1656 mostly used by the various BIGNUM routines. If there is an error,
1657 NULL is returned. if not, 'b' is returned.
1658
1659BIGNUM *BN_copy(BIGNUM *to, BIGNUM *from);
1660 The 'from' is copied into 'to'. NULL is returned if there is an
1661 error, otherwise 'to' is returned.
1662
1663BIGNUM *BN_dup(BIGNUM *a);
1664 A new BIGNUM is created and returned containing the value of 'a'.
1665 NULL is returned on error.
1666
1667Comparison and Test Functions.
1668
1669int BN_is_zero(BIGNUM *a)
1670 Return 1 if 'a' is zero, else 0.
1671
1672int BN_is_one(a)
1673 Return 1 is 'a' is one, else 0.
1674
1675int BN_is_word(a,w)
1676 Return 1 if 'a' == w, else 0. 'w' is a BN_ULONG.
1677
1678int BN_cmp(BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *b);
1679 Return -1 if 'a' is less than 'b', 0 if 'a' and 'b' are the same
1680 and 1 is 'a' is greater than 'b'. This is a signed comparison.
1681
1682int BN_ucmp(BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *b);
1683 This function is the same as BN_cmp except that the comparison
1684 ignores the sign of the numbers.
1685
1686Arithmetic Functions
1687For all of these functions, 0 is returned if there is an error and 1 is
1688returned for success. The return value should always be checked. eg.
1689if (!BN_add(r,a,b)) goto err;
1690Unless explicitly mentioned, the 'return' value can be one of the
1691'parameters' to the function.
1692
1693int BN_add(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *b);
1694 Add 'a' and 'b' and return the result in 'r'. This is r=a+b.
1695
1696int BN_sub(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *b);
1697 Subtract 'a' from 'b' and put the result in 'r'. This is r=a-b.
1698
1699int BN_lshift(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, int n);
1700 Shift 'a' left by 'n' bits. This is r=a*(2^n).
1701
1702int BN_lshift1(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a);
1703 Shift 'a' left by 1 bit. This form is more efficient than
1704 BN_lshift(r,a,1). This is r=a*2.
1705
1706int BN_rshift(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, int n);
1707 Shift 'a' right by 'n' bits. This is r=int(a/(2^n)).
1708
1709int BN_rshift1(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a);
1710 Shift 'a' right by 1 bit. This form is more efficient than
1711 BN_rshift(r,a,1). This is r=int(a/2).
1712
1713int BN_mul(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *b);
1714 Multiply a by b and return the result in 'r'. 'r' must not be
1715 either 'a' or 'b'. It has to be a different BIGNUM.
1716 This is r=a*b.
1717
1718int BN_sqr(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, BN_CTX *ctx);
1719 Multiply a by a and return the result in 'r'. 'r' must not be
1720 'a'. This function is alot faster than BN_mul(r,a,a). This is r=a*a.
1721
1722int BN_div(BIGNUM *dv, BIGNUM *rem, BIGNUM *m, BIGNUM *d, BN_CTX *ctx);
1723 Divide 'm' by 'd' and return the result in 'dv' and the remainder
1724 in 'rem'. Either of 'dv' or 'rem' can be NULL in which case that
1725 value is not returned. 'ctx' needs to be passed as a source of
1726 temporary BIGNUM variables.
1727 This is dv=int(m/d), rem=m%d.
1728
1729int BN_mod(BIGNUM *rem, BIGNUM *m, BIGNUM *d, BN_CTX *ctx);
1730 Find the remainder of 'm' divided by 'd' and return it in 'rem'.
1731 'ctx' holds the temporary BIGNUMs required by this function.
1732 This function is more efficient than BN_div(NULL,rem,m,d,ctx);
1733 This is rem=m%d.
1734
1735int BN_mod_mul(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *b, BIGNUM *m,BN_CTX *ctx);
1736 Multiply 'a' by 'b' and return the remainder when divided by 'm'.
1737 'ctx' holds the temporary BIGNUMs required by this function.
1738 This is r=(a*b)%m.
1739
1740int BN_mod_exp(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *p, BIGNUM *m,BN_CTX *ctx);
1741 Raise 'a' to the 'p' power and return the remainder when divided by
1742 'm'. 'ctx' holds the temporary BIGNUMs required by this function.
1743 This is r=(a^p)%m.
1744
1745int BN_reciprocal(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx);
1746 Return the reciprocal of 'm'. 'ctx' holds the temporary variables
1747 required. This function returns -1 on error, otherwise it returns
1748 the number of bits 'r' is shifted left to make 'r' into an integer.
1749 This number of bits shifted is required in BN_mod_mul_reciprocal().
1750 This is r=(1/m)<<(BN_num_bits(m)+1).
1751
1752int BN_mod_mul_reciprocal(BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *x, BIGNUM *y, BIGNUM *m,
1753 BIGNUM *i, int nb, BN_CTX *ctx);
1754 This function is used to perform an efficient BN_mod_mul()
1755 operation. If one is going to repeatedly perform BN_mod_mul() with
1756 the same modulus is worth calculating the reciprocal of the modulus
1757 and then using this function. This operation uses the fact that
1758 a/b == a*r where r is the reciprocal of b. On modern computers
1759 multiplication is very fast and big number division is very slow.
1760 'x' is multiplied by 'y' and then divided by 'm' and the remainder
1761 is returned. 'i' is the reciprocal of 'm' and 'nb' is the number
1762 of bits as returned from BN_reciprocal(). Normal usage is as follows.
1763 bn=BN_reciprocal(i,m);
1764 for (...)
1765 { BN_mod_mul_reciprocal(r,x,y,m,i,bn,ctx); }
1766 This is r=(x*y)%m. Internally it is approximately
1767 r=(x*y)-m*(x*y/m) or r=(x*y)-m*((x*y*i) >> bn)
1768 This function is used in BN_mod_exp() and BN_is_prime().
1769
1770Assignment Operations
1771
1772int BN_one(BIGNUM *a)
1773 Set 'a' to hold the value one.
1774 This is a=1.
1775
1776int BN_zero(BIGNUM *a)
1777 Set 'a' to hold the value zero.
1778 This is a=0.
1779
1780int BN_set_word(BIGNUM *a, unsigned long w);
1781 Set 'a' to hold the value of 'w'. 'w' is an unsigned long.
1782 This is a=w.
1783
1784unsigned long BN_get_word(BIGNUM *a);
1785 Returns 'a' in an unsigned long. Not remarkably, often 'a' will
1786 be biger than a word, in which case 0xffffffffL is returned.
1787
1788Word Operations
1789These functions are much more efficient that the normal bignum arithmetic
1790operations.
1791
1792BN_ULONG BN_mod_word(BIGNUM *a, unsigned long w);
1793 Return the remainder of 'a' divided by 'w'.
1794 This is return(a%w).
1795
1796int BN_add_word(BIGNUM *a, unsigned long w);
1797 Add 'w' to 'a'. This function does not take the sign of 'a' into
1798 account. This is a+=w;
1799
1800Bit operations.
1801
1802int BN_is_bit_set(BIGNUM *a, int n);
1803 This function return 1 if bit 'n' is set in 'a' else 0.
1804
1805int BN_set_bit(BIGNUM *a, int n);
1806 This function sets bit 'n' to 1 in 'a'.
1807 This is a&= ~(1<<n);
1808
1809int BN_clear_bit(BIGNUM *a, int n);
1810 This function sets bit 'n' to zero in 'a'. Return 0 if less
1811 than 'n' bits in 'a' else 1. This is a&= ~(1<<n);
1812
1813int BN_mask_bits(BIGNUM *a, int n);
1814 Truncate 'a' to n bits long. This is a&= ~((~0)<<n)
1815
1816Format conversion routines.
1817
1818BIGNUM *BN_bin2bn(unsigned char *s, int len,BIGNUM *ret);
1819 This function converts 'len' bytes in 's' into a BIGNUM which
1820 is put in 'ret'. If ret is NULL, a new BIGNUM is created.
1821 Either this new BIGNUM or ret is returned. The number is
1822 assumed to be in bigendian form in 's'. By this I mean that
1823 to 'ret' is created as follows for 'len' == 5.
1824 ret = s[0]*2^32 + s[1]*2^24 + s[2]*2^16 + s[3]*2^8 + s[4];
1825 This function cannot be used to convert negative numbers. It
1826 is always assumed the number is positive. The application
1827 needs to diddle the 'neg' field of th BIGNUM its self.
1828 The better solution would be to save the numbers in ASN.1 format
1829 since this is a defined standard for storing big numbers.
1830 Look at the functions
1831
1832 ASN1_INTEGER *BN_to_ASN1_INTEGER(BIGNUM *bn, ASN1_INTEGER *ai);
1833 BIGNUM *ASN1_INTEGER_to_BN(ASN1_INTEGER *ai,BIGNUM *bn);
1834 int i2d_ASN1_INTEGER(ASN1_INTEGER *a,unsigned char **pp);
1835 ASN1_INTEGER *d2i_ASN1_INTEGER(ASN1_INTEGER **a,unsigned char **pp,
1836 long length;
1837
1838int BN_bn2bin(BIGNUM *a, unsigned char *to);
1839 This function converts 'a' to a byte string which is put into
1840 'to'. The representation is big-endian in that the most
1841 significant byte of 'a' is put into to[0]. This function
1842 returns the number of bytes used to hold 'a'. BN_num_bytes(a)
1843 would return the same value and can be used to determine how
1844 large 'to' needs to be. If the number is negative, this
1845 information is lost. Since this library was written to
1846 manipulate large positive integers, the inability to save and
1847 restore them is not considered to be a problem by me :-).
1848 As for BN_bin2bn(), look at the ASN.1 integer encoding funtions
1849 for SSLeay. They use BN_bin2bn() and BN_bn2bin() internally.
1850
1851char *BN_bn2ascii(BIGNUM *a);
1852 This function returns a malloc()ed string that contains the
1853 ascii hexadecimal encoding of 'a'. The number is in bigendian
1854 format with a '-' in front if the number is negative.
1855
1856int BN_ascii2bn(BIGNUM **bn, char *a);
1857 The inverse of BN_bn2ascii. The function returns the number of
1858 characters from 'a' were processed in generating a the bignum.
1859 error is inticated by 0 being returned. The number is a
1860 hex digit string, optionally with a leading '-'. If *bn
1861 is null, a BIGNUM is created and returned via that variable.
1862
1863int BN_print_fp(FILE *fp, BIGNUM *a);
1864 'a' is printed to file pointer 'fp'. It is in the same format
1865 that is output from BN_bn2ascii(). 0 is returned on error,
1866 1 if things are ok.
1867
1868int BN_print(BIO *bp, BIGNUM *a);
1869 Same as BN_print except that the output is done to the SSLeay libraries
1870 BIO routines. BN_print_fp() actually calls this function.
1871
1872Miscellaneous Routines.
1873
1874int BN_rand(BIGNUM *rnd, int bits, int top, int bottom);
1875 This function returns in 'rnd' a random BIGNUM that is bits
1876 long. If bottom is 1, the number returned is odd. If top is set,
1877 the top 2 bits of the number are set. This is useful because if
1878 this is set, 2 'n; bit numbers multiplied together will return a 2n
1879 bit number. If top was not set, they could produce a 2n-1 bit
1880 number.
1881
1882BIGNUM *BN_mod_inverse(BIGNUM *a, BIGNUM *n,BN_CTX *ctx);
1883 This function create a new BIGNUM and returns it. This number
1884 is the inverse mod 'n' of 'a'. By this it is meant that the
1885 returned value 'r' satisfies (a*r)%n == 1. This function is
1886 used in the generation of RSA keys. 'ctx', as per usual,
1887 is used to hold temporary variables that are required by the
1888 function. NULL is returned on error.
1889
1890int BN_gcd(BIGNUM *r,BIGNUM *a,BIGNUM *b,BN_CTX *ctx);
1891 'r' has the greatest common divisor of 'a' and 'b'. 'ctx' is
1892 used for temporary variables and 0 is returned on error.
1893
1894int BN_is_prime(BIGNUM *p,int nchecks,void (*callback)(),BN_CTX *ctx,
1895 char *cb_arg);
1896 This function is used to check if a BIGNUM ('p') is prime.
1897 It performs this test by using the Miller-Rabin randomised
1898 primality test. This is a probalistic test that requires a
1899 number of rounds to ensure the number is prime to a high
1900 degree of probability. Since this can take quite some time, a
1901 callback function can be passed and it will be called each
1902 time 'p' passes a round of the prime testing. 'callback' will
1903 be called as follows, callback(1,n,cb_arg) where n is the number of
1904 the round, just passed. As per usual 'ctx' contains temporary
1905 variables used. If ctx is NULL, it does not matter, a local version
1906 will be malloced. This parameter is present to save some mallocing
1907 inside the function but probably could be removed.
1908 0 is returned on error.
1909 'ncheck' is the number of Miller-Rabin tests to run. It is
1910 suggested to use the value 'BN_prime_checks' by default.
1911
1912BIGNUM *BN_generate_prime(
1913int bits,
1914int strong,
1915BIGNUM *a,
1916BIGNUM *rems,
1917void (*callback)());
1918char *cb_arg
1919 This function is used to generate prime numbers. It returns a
1920 new BIGNUM that has a high probability of being a prime.
1921 'bits' is the number of bits that
1922 are to be in the prime. If 'strong' is true, the returned prime
1923 will also be a strong prime ((p-1)/2 is also prime).
1924 While searching for the prime ('p'), we
1925 can add the requirement that the prime fill the following
1926 condition p%a == rem. This can be used to help search for
1927 primes with specific features, which is required when looking
1928 for primes suitable for use with certain 'g' values in the
1929 Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm. If 'a' is NULL,
1930 this condition is not checked. If rem is NULL, rem is assumed
1931 to be 1. Since this search for a prime
1932 can take quite some time, if callback is not NULL, it is called
1933 in the following situations.
1934 We have a suspected prime (from a quick sieve),
1935 callback(0,sus_prime++,cb_arg). Each item to be passed to BN_is_prime().
1936 callback(1,round++,cb_arg). Each successful 'round' in BN_is_prime().
1937 callback(2,round,cb_arg). For each successful BN_is_prime() test.
1938
1939Hints
1940-----
1941
1942DSA wants 64*32 to use word mont mul, but RSA wants to use full.
1943
1944==== callback.doc ========================================================
1945
1946Callback functions used in SSLeay.
1947
1948--------------------------
1949The BIO library.
1950
1951Each BIO structure can have a callback defined against it. This callback is
1952called 2 times for each BIO 'function'. It is passed 6 parameters.
1953BIO_debug_callback() is an example callback which is defined in
1954crypto/buffer/bio_cb.c and is used in apps/dgst.c This is intended mostly
1955for debuging or to notify the application of IO.
1956
1957long BIO_debug_callback(BIO *bio,int cmd,char *argp,int argi,long argl,
1958 long ret);
1959bio is the BIO being called, cmd is the type of BIO function being called.
1960Look at the BIO_CB_* defines in buffer.h. Argp and argi are the arguments
1961passed to BIO_read(), BIO_write, BIO_gets(), BIO_puts(). In the case of
1962BIO_ctrl(), argl is also defined. The first time the callback is called,
1963before the underlying function has been executed, 0 is passed as 'ret', and
1964if the return code from the callback is not > 0, the call is aborted
1965and the returned <= 0 value is returned.
1966The second time the callback is called, the 'cmd' value also has
1967BIO_CB_RETURN logically 'or'ed with it. The 'ret' value is the value returned
1968from the actuall function call and whatever the callback returns is returned
1969from the BIO function.
1970
1971BIO_set_callback(b,cb) can be used to set the callback function
1972(b is a BIO), and BIO_set_callback_arg(b,arg) can be used to
1973set the cb_arg argument in the BIO strucutre. This field is only intended
1974to be used by application, primarily in the callback function since it is
1975accessable since the BIO is passed.
1976
1977--------------------------
1978The PEM library.
1979
1980The pem library only really uses one type of callback,
1981static int def_callback(char *buf, int num, int verify);
1982which is used to return a password string if required.
1983'buf' is the buffer to put the string in. 'num' is the size of 'buf'
1984and 'verify' is used to indicate that the password should be checked.
1985This last flag is mostly used when reading a password for encryption.
1986
1987For all of these functions, a NULL callback will call the above mentioned
1988default callback. This default function does not work under Windows 3.1.
1989For other machines, it will use an application defined prompt string
1990(EVP_set_pw_prompt(), which defines a library wide prompt string)
1991if defined, otherwise it will use it's own PEM password prompt.
1992It will then call EVP_read_pw_string() to get a password from the console.
1993If your application wishes to use nice fancy windows to retrieve passwords,
1994replace this function. The callback should return the number of bytes read
1995into 'buf'. If the number of bytes <= 0, it is considered an error.
1996
1997Functions that take this callback are listed below. For the 'read' type
1998functions, the callback will only be required if the PEM data is encrypted.
1999
2000For the Write functions, normally a password can be passed in 'kstr', of
2001'klen' bytes which will be used if the 'enc' cipher is not NULL. If
2002'kstr' is NULL, the callback will be used to retrieve a password.
2003
2004int PEM_do_header (EVP_CIPHER_INFO *cipher, unsigned char *data,long *len,
2005 int (*callback)());
2006char *PEM_ASN1_read_bio(char *(*d2i)(),char *name,BIO *bp,char **x,int (*cb)());
2007char *PEM_ASN1_read(char *(*d2i)(),char *name,FILE *fp,char **x,int (*cb)());
2008int PEM_ASN1_write_bio(int (*i2d)(),char *name,BIO *bp,char *x,
2009 EVP_CIPHER *enc,unsigned char *kstr,int klen,int (*callback)());
2010int PEM_ASN1_write(int (*i2d)(),char *name,FILE *fp,char *x,
2011 EVP_CIPHER *enc,unsigned char *kstr,int klen,int (*callback)());
2012STACK *PEM_X509_INFO_read(FILE *fp, STACK *sk, int (*cb)());
2013STACK *PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio(BIO *fp, STACK *sk, int (*cb)());
2014
2015#define PEM_write_RSAPrivateKey(fp,x,enc,kstr,klen,cb)
2016#define PEM_write_DSAPrivateKey(fp,x,enc,kstr,klen,cb)
2017#define PEM_write_bio_RSAPrivateKey(bp,x,enc,kstr,klen,cb)
2018#define PEM_write_bio_DSAPrivateKey(bp,x,enc,kstr,klen,cb)
2019#define PEM_read_SSL_SESSION(fp,x,cb)
2020#define PEM_read_X509(fp,x,cb)
2021#define PEM_read_X509_REQ(fp,x,cb)
2022#define PEM_read_X509_CRL(fp,x,cb)
2023#define PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey(fp,x,cb)
2024#define PEM_read_DSAPrivateKey(fp,x,cb)
2025#define PEM_read_PrivateKey(fp,x,cb)
2026#define PEM_read_PKCS7(fp,x,cb)
2027#define PEM_read_DHparams(fp,x,cb)
2028#define PEM_read_bio_SSL_SESSION(bp,x,cb)
2029#define PEM_read_bio_X509(bp,x,cb)
2030#define PEM_read_bio_X509_REQ(bp,x,cb)
2031#define PEM_read_bio_X509_CRL(bp,x,cb)
2032#define PEM_read_bio_RSAPrivateKey(bp,x,cb)
2033#define PEM_read_bio_DSAPrivateKey(bp,x,cb)
2034#define PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey(bp,x,cb)
2035#define PEM_read_bio_PKCS7(bp,x,cb)
2036#define PEM_read_bio_DHparams(bp,x,cb)
2037int i2d_Netscape_RSA(RSA *a, unsigned char **pp, int (*cb)());
2038RSA *d2i_Netscape_RSA(RSA **a, unsigned char **pp, long length, int (*cb)());
2039
2040Now you will notice that macros like
2041#define PEM_write_X509(fp,x) \
2042 PEM_ASN1_write((int (*)())i2d_X509,PEM_STRING_X509,fp, \
2043 (char *)x, NULL,NULL,0,NULL)
2044Don't do encryption normally. If you want to PEM encrypt your X509 structure,
2045either just call PEM_ASN1_write directly or just define you own
2046macro variant. As you can see, this macro just sets all encryption related
2047parameters to NULL.
2048
2049
2050--------------------------
2051The SSL library.
2052
2053#define SSL_set_info_callback(ssl,cb)
2054#define SSL_CTX_set_info_callback(ctx,cb)
2055void callback(SSL *ssl,int location,int ret)
2056This callback is called each time around the SSL_connect()/SSL_accept()
2057state machine. So it will be called each time the SSL protocol progresses.
2058It is mostly present for use when debugging. When SSL_connect() or
2059SSL_accept() return, the location flag is SSL_CB_ACCEPT_EXIT or
2060SSL_CB_CONNECT_EXIT and 'ret' is the value about to be returned.
2061Have a look at the SSL_CB_* defines in ssl.h. If an info callback is defined
2062against the SSL_CTX, it is called unless there is one set against the SSL.
2063Have a look at
2064void client_info_callback() in apps/s_client() for an example.
2065
2066Certificate verification.
2067void SSL_set_verify(SSL *s, int mode, int (*callback) ());
2068void SSL_CTX_set_verify(SSL_CTX *ctx,int mode,int (*callback)());
2069This callback is used to help verify client and server X509 certificates.
2070It is actually passed to X509_cert_verify(), along with the SSL structure
2071so you have to read about X509_cert_verify() :-). The SSL_CTX version is used
2072if the SSL version is not defined. X509_cert_verify() is the function used
2073by the SSL part of the library to verify certificates. This function is
2074nearly always defined by the application.
2075
2076void SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_cb(SSL_CTX *ctx, int (*cb)(),char *arg);
2077int callback(char *arg,SSL *s,X509 *xs,STACK *cert_chain);
2078This call is used to replace the SSLeay certificate verification code.
2079The 'arg' is kept in the SSL_CTX and is passed to the callback.
2080If the callback returns 0, the certificate is rejected, otherwise it
2081is accepted. The callback is replacing the X509_cert_verify() call.
2082This feature is not often used, but if you wished to implement
2083some totally different certificate authentication system, this 'hook' is
2084vital.
2085
2086SSLeay keeps a cache of session-ids against each SSL_CTX. These callbacks can
2087be used to notify the application when a SSL_SESSION is added to the cache
2088or to retrieve a SSL_SESSION that is not in the cache from the application.
2089#define SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb(ctx,cb)
2090SSL_SESSION *callback(SSL *s,char *session_id,int session_id_len,int *copy);
2091If defined, this callback is called to return the SESSION_ID for the
2092session-id in 'session_id', of 'session_id_len' bytes. 'copy' is set to 1
2093if the server is to 'take a copy' of the SSL_SESSION structure. It is 0
2094if the SSL_SESSION is being 'passed in' so the SSLeay library is now
2095responsible for 'free()ing' the structure. Basically it is used to indicate
2096if the reference count on the SSL_SESSION structure needs to be incremented.
2097
2098#define SSL_CTX_sess_set_new_cb(ctx,cb)
2099int callback(SSL *s, SSL_SESSION *sess);
2100When a new connection is established, if the SSL_SESSION is going to be added
2101to the cache, this callback is called. Return 1 if a 'copy' is required,
2102otherwise, return 0. This return value just causes the reference count
2103to be incremented (on return of a 1), this means the application does
2104not need to worry about incrementing the refernece count (and the
2105locking that implies in a multi-threaded application).
2106
2107void SSL_CTX_set_default_passwd_cb(SSL_CTX *ctx,int (*cb)());
2108This sets the SSL password reading function.
2109It is mostly used for windowing applications
2110and used by PEM_read_bio_X509() and PEM_read_bio_RSAPrivateKey()
2111calls inside the SSL library. The only reason this is present is because the
2112calls to PEM_* functions is hidden in the SSLeay library so you have to
2113pass in the callback some how.
2114
2115#define SSL_CTX_set_client_cert_cb(ctx,cb)
2116int callback(SSL *s,X509 **x509, EVP_PKEY **pkey);
2117Called when a client certificate is requested but there is not one set
2118against the SSL_CTX or the SSL. If the callback returns 1, x509 and
2119pkey need to point to valid data. The library will free these when
2120required so if the application wants to keep these around, increment
2121their reference counts. If 0 is returned, no client cert is
2122available. If -1 is returned, it is assumed that the callback needs
2123to be called again at a later point in time. SSL_connect will return
2124-1 and SSL_want_x509_lookup(ssl) returns true. Remember that
2125application data can be attached to an SSL structure via the
2126SSL_set_app_data(SSL *ssl,char *data) call.
2127
2128--------------------------
2129The X509 library.
2130
2131int X509_cert_verify(CERTIFICATE_CTX *ctx,X509 *xs, int (*cb)(),
2132 int *error,char *arg,STACK *cert_chain);
2133int verify_callback(int ok,X509 *xs,X509 *xi,int depth,int error,char *arg,
2134 STACK *cert_chain);
2135
2136X509_cert_verify() is used to authenticate X509 certificates. The 'ctx' holds
2137the details of the various caches and files used to locate certificates.
2138'xs' is the certificate to verify and 'cb' is the application callback (more
2139detail later). 'error' will be set to the error code and 'arg' is passed
2140to the 'cb' callback. Look at the VERIFY_* defines in crypto/x509/x509.h
2141
2142When ever X509_cert_verify() makes a 'negative' decision about a
2143certitificate, the callback is called. If everything checks out, the
2144callback is called with 'VERIFY_OK' or 'VERIFY_ROOT_OK' (for a self
2145signed cert that is not the passed certificate).
2146
2147The callback is passed the X509_cert_verify opinion of the certificate
2148in 'ok', the certificate in 'xs', the issuer certificate in 'xi',
2149the 'depth' of the certificate in the verification 'chain', the
2150VERIFY_* code in 'error' and the argument passed to X509_cert_verify()
2151in 'arg'. cert_chain is a list of extra certs to use if they are not
2152in the cache.
2153
2154The callback can be used to look at the error reason, and then return 0
2155for an 'error' or '1' for ok. This will override the X509_cert_verify()
2156opinion of the certificates validity. Processing will continue depending on
2157the return value. If one just wishes to use the callback for informational
2158reason, just return the 'ok' parameter.
2159
2160--------------------------
2161The BN and DH library.
2162
2163BIGNUM *BN_generate_prime(int bits,int strong,BIGNUM *add,
2164 BIGNUM *rem,void (*callback)(int,int));
2165int BN_is_prime(BIGNUM *p,int nchecks,void (*callback)(int,int),
2166
2167Read doc/bn.doc for the description of these 2.
2168
2169DH *DH_generate_parameters(int prime_len,int generator,
2170 void (*callback)(int,int));
2171Read doc/bn.doc for the description of the callback, since it is just passed
2172to BN_generate_prime(), except that it is also called as
2173callback(3,0) by this function.
2174
2175--------------------------
2176The CRYPTO library.
2177
2178void CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(void (*func)(int mode,int type,char *file,
2179 int line));
2180void CRYPTO_set_add_lock_callback(int (*func)(int *num,int mount,
2181 int type,char *file, int line));
2182void CRYPTO_set_id_callback(unsigned long (*func)(void));
2183
2184Read threads.doc for info on these ones.
2185
2186
2187==== cipher.doc ========================================================
2188
2189The Cipher subroutines.
2190
2191These routines require "evp.h" to be included.
2192
2193These functions are a higher level interface to the various cipher
2194routines found in this library. As such, they allow the same code to be
2195used to encrypt and decrypt via different ciphers with only a change
2196in an initial parameter. These routines also provide buffering for block
2197ciphers.
2198
2199These routines all take a pointer to the following structure to specify
2200which cipher to use. If you wish to use a new cipher with these routines,
2201you would probably be best off looking an how an existing cipher is
2202implemented and copying it. At this point in time, I'm not going to go
2203into many details. This structure should be considered opaque
2204
2205typedef struct pem_cipher_st
2206 {
2207 int type;
2208 int block_size;
2209 int key_len;
2210 int iv_len;
2211 void (*enc_init)(); /* init for encryption */
2212 void (*dec_init)(); /* init for decryption */
2213 void (*do_cipher)(); /* encrypt data */
2214 } EVP_CIPHER;
2215
2216The type field is the object NID of the cipher type
2217(read the section on Objects for an explanation of what a NID is).
2218The cipher block_size is how many bytes need to be passed
2219to the cipher at a time. Key_len is the
2220length of the key the cipher requires and iv_len is the length of the
2221initialisation vector required. enc_init is the function
2222called to initialise the ciphers context for encryption and dec_init is the
2223function to initialise for decryption (they need to be different, especially
2224for the IDEA cipher).
2225
2226One reason for specifying the Cipher via a pointer to a structure
2227is that if you only use des-cbc, only the des-cbc routines will
2228be included when you link the program. If you passed an integer
2229that specified which cipher to use, the routine that mapped that
2230integer to a set of cipher functions would cause all the ciphers
2231to be link into the code. This setup also allows new ciphers
2232to be added by the application (with some restrictions).
2233
2234The thirteen ciphers currently defined in this library are
2235
2236EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ecb(); /* DES in ecb mode, iv=0, block=8, key= 8 */
2237EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede(); /* DES in ecb ede mode, iv=0, block=8, key=16 */
2238EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede3(); /* DES in ecb ede mode, iv=0, block=8, key=24 */
2239EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_cfb(); /* DES in cfb mode, iv=8, block=1, key= 8 */
2240EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede_cfb(); /* DES in ede cfb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2241EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede3_cfb();/* DES in ede cfb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=24 */
2242EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ofb(); /* DES in ofb mode, iv=8, block=1, key= 8 */
2243EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede_ofb(); /* DES in ede ofb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2244EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede3_ofb();/* DES in ede ofb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=24 */
2245EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_cbc(); /* DES in cbc mode, iv=8, block=8, key= 8 */
2246EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede_cbc(); /* DES in cbc ede mode, iv=8, block=8, key=16 */
2247EVP_CIPHER *EVP_des_ede3_cbc();/* DES in cbc ede mode, iv=8, block=8, key=24 */
2248EVP_CIPHER *EVP_desx_cbc(); /* DES in desx cbc mode,iv=8, block=8, key=24 */
2249EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc4(); /* RC4, iv=0, block=1, key=16 */
2250EVP_CIPHER *EVP_idea_ecb(); /* IDEA in ecb mode, iv=0, block=8, key=16 */
2251EVP_CIPHER *EVP_idea_cfb(); /* IDEA in cfb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2252EVP_CIPHER *EVP_idea_ofb(); /* IDEA in ofb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2253EVP_CIPHER *EVP_idea_cbc(); /* IDEA in cbc mode, iv=8, block=8, key=16 */
2254EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_ecb(); /* RC2 in ecb mode, iv=0, block=8, key=16 */
2255EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cfb(); /* RC2 in cfb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2256EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_ofb(); /* RC2 in ofb mode, iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2257EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cbc(); /* RC2 in cbc mode, iv=8, block=8, key=16 */
2258EVP_CIPHER *EVP_bf_ecb(); /* Blowfish in ecb mode,iv=0, block=8, key=16 */
2259EVP_CIPHER *EVP_bf_cfb(); /* Blowfish in cfb mode,iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2260EVP_CIPHER *EVP_bf_ofb(); /* Blowfish in ofb mode,iv=8, block=1, key=16 */
2261EVP_CIPHER *EVP_bf_cbc(); /* Blowfish in cbc mode,iv=8, block=8, key=16 */
2262
2263The meaning of the compound names is as follows.
2264des The base cipher is DES.
2265idea The base cipher is IDEA
2266rc4 The base cipher is RC4-128
2267rc2 The base cipher is RC2-128
2268ecb Electronic Code Book form of the cipher.
2269cbc Cipher Block Chaining form of the cipher.
2270cfb 64 bit Cipher Feedback form of the cipher.
2271ofb 64 bit Output Feedback form of the cipher.
2272ede The cipher is used in Encrypt, Decrypt, Encrypt mode. The first
2273 and last keys are the same.
2274ede3 The cipher is used in Encrypt, Decrypt, Encrypt mode.
2275
2276All the Cipher routines take a EVP_CIPHER_CTX pointer as an argument.
2277The state of the cipher is kept in this structure.
2278
2279typedef struct EVP_CIPHER_Ctx_st
2280 {
2281 EVP_CIPHER *cipher;
2282 int encrypt; /* encrypt or decrypt */
2283 int buf_len; /* number we have left */
2284 unsigned char buf[8];
2285 union {
2286 .... /* cipher specific stuff */
2287 } c;
2288 } EVP_CIPHER_CTX;
2289
2290Cipher is a pointer the the EVP_CIPHER for the current context. The encrypt
2291flag indicates encryption or decryption. buf_len is the number of bytes
2292currently being held in buf.
2293The 'c' union holds the cipher specify context.
2294
2295The following functions are to be used.
2296
2297int EVP_read_pw_string(
2298char *buf,
2299int len,
2300char *prompt,
2301int verify,
2302 This function is the same as des_read_pw_string() (des.doc).
2303
2304void EVP_set_pw_prompt(char *prompt);
2305 This function sets the 'default' prompt to use to use in
2306 EVP_read_pw_string when the prompt parameter is NULL. If the
2307 prompt parameter is NULL, this 'default prompt' feature is turned
2308 off. Be warned, this is a global variable so weird things
2309 will happen if it is used under Win16 and care must be taken
2310 with a multi-threaded version of the library.
2311
2312char *EVP_get_pw_prompt();
2313 This returns a pointer to the default prompt string. NULL
2314 if it is not set.
2315
2316int EVP_BytesToKey(
2317EVP_CIPHER *type,
2318EVP_MD *md,
2319unsigned char *salt,
2320unsigned char *data,
2321int datal,
2322int count,
2323unsigned char *key,
2324unsigned char *iv);
2325 This function is used to generate a key and an initialisation vector
2326 for a specified cipher from a key string and a salt. Type
2327 specifies the cipher the 'key' is being generated for. Md is the
2328 message digest algorithm to use to generate the key and iv. The salt
2329 is an optional 8 byte object that is used to help seed the key
2330 generator.
2331 If the salt value is NULL, it is just not used. Datal is the
2332 number of bytes to use from 'data' in the key generation.
2333 This function returns the key size for the specified cipher, if
2334 data is NULL, this value is returns and no other
2335 computation is performed. Count is
2336 the number of times to loop around the key generator. I would
2337 suggest leaving it's value as 1. Key and iv are the structures to
2338 place the returning iv and key in. If they are NULL, no value is
2339 generated for that particular value.
2340 The algorithm used is as follows
2341
2342 /* M[] is an array of message digests
2343 * MD() is the message digest function */
2344 M[0]=MD(data . salt);
2345 for (i=1; i<count; i++) M[0]=MD(M[0]);
2346
2347 i=1
2348 while (data still needed for key and iv)
2349 {
2350 M[i]=MD(M[i-1] . data . salt);
2351 for (i=1; i<count; i++) M[i]=MD(M[i]);
2352 i++;
2353 }
2354
2355 If the salt is NULL, it is not used.
2356 The digests are concatenated together.
2357 M = M[0] . M[1] . M[2] .......
2358
2359 For key= 8, iv=8 => key=M[0.. 8], iv=M[ 9 .. 16].
2360 For key=16, iv=0 => key=M[0..16].
2361 For key=16, iv=8 => key=M[0..16], iv=M[17 .. 24].
2362 For key=24, iv=8 => key=M[0..24], iv=M[25 .. 32].
2363
2364 This routine will produce DES-CBC keys and iv that are compatible
2365 with the PKCS-5 standard when md2 or md5 are used. If md5 is
2366 used, the salt is NULL and count is 1, this routine will produce
2367 the password to key mapping normally used with RC4.
2368 I have attempted to logically extend the PKCS-5 standard to
2369 generate keys and iv for ciphers that require more than 16 bytes,
2370 if anyone knows what the correct standard is, please inform me.
2371 When using sha or sha1, things are a bit different under this scheme,
2372 since sha produces a 20 byte digest. So for ciphers requiring
2373 24 bits of data, 20 will come from the first MD and 4 will
2374 come from the second.
2375
2376 I have considered having a separate function so this 'routine'
2377 can be used without the requirement of passing a EVP_CIPHER *,
2378 but I have decided to not bother. If you wish to use the
2379 function without official EVP_CIPHER structures, just declare
2380 a local one and set the key_len and iv_len fields to the
2381 length you desire.
2382
2383The following routines perform encryption and decryption 'by parts'. By
2384this I mean that there are groups of 3 routines. An Init function that is
2385used to specify a cipher and initialise data structures. An Update routine
2386that does encryption/decryption, one 'chunk' at a time. And finally a
2387'Final' function that finishes the encryption/decryption process.
2388All these functions take a EVP_CIPHER pointer to specify which cipher to
2389encrypt/decrypt with. They also take a EVP_CIPHER_CTX object as an
2390argument. This structure is used to hold the state information associated
2391with the operation in progress.
2392
2393void EVP_EncryptInit(
2394EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2395EVP_CIPHER *type,
2396unsigned char *key,
2397unsigned char *iv);
2398 This function initialise a EVP_CIPHER_CTX for encryption using the
2399 cipher passed in the 'type' field. The cipher is initialised to use
2400 'key' as the key and 'iv' for the initialisation vector (if one is
2401 required). If the type, key or iv is NULL, the value currently in the
2402 EVP_CIPHER_CTX is reused. So to perform several decrypt
2403 using the same cipher, key and iv, initialise with the cipher,
2404 key and iv the first time and then for subsequent calls,
2405 reuse 'ctx' but pass NULL for type, key and iv. You must make sure
2406 to pass a key that is large enough for a particular cipher. I
2407 would suggest using the EVP_BytesToKey() function.
2408
2409void EVP_EncryptUpdate(
2410EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2411unsigned char *out,
2412int *outl,
2413unsigned char *in,
2414int inl);
2415 This function takes 'inl' bytes from 'in' and outputs bytes
2416 encrypted by the cipher 'ctx' was initialised with into 'out'. The
2417 number of bytes written to 'out' is put into outl. If a particular
2418 cipher encrypts in blocks, less or more bytes than input may be
2419 output. Currently the largest block size used by supported ciphers
2420 is 8 bytes, so 'out' should have room for 'inl+7' bytes. Normally
2421 EVP_EncryptInit() is called once, followed by lots and lots of
2422 calls to EVP_EncryptUpdate, followed by a single EVP_EncryptFinal
2423 call.
2424
2425void EVP_EncryptFinal(
2426EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2427unsigned char *out,
2428int *outl);
2429 Because quite a large number of ciphers are block ciphers, there is
2430 often an incomplete block to write out at the end of the
2431 encryption. EVP_EncryptFinal() performs processing on this last
2432 block. The last block in encoded in such a way that it is possible
2433 to determine how many bytes in the last block are valid. For 8 byte
2434 block size ciphers, if only 5 bytes in the last block are valid, the
2435 last three bytes will be filled with the value 3. If only 2 were
2436 valid, the other 6 would be filled with sixes. If all 8 bytes are
2437 valid, a extra 8 bytes are appended to the cipher stream containing
2438 nothing but 8 eights. These last bytes are output into 'out' and
2439 the number of bytes written is put into 'outl' These last bytes
2440 are output into 'out' and the number of bytes written is put into
2441 'outl'. This form of block cipher finalisation is compatible with
2442 PKCS-5. Please remember that even if you are using ciphers like
2443 RC4 that has no blocking and so the function will not write
2444 anything into 'out', it would still be a good idea to pass a
2445 variable for 'out' that can hold 8 bytes just in case the cipher is
2446 changed some time in the future. It should also be remembered
2447 that the EVP_CIPHER_CTX contains the password and so when one has
2448 finished encryption with a particular EVP_CIPHER_CTX, it is good
2449 practice to zero the structure
2450 (ie. memset(ctx,0,sizeof(EVP_CIPHER_CTX)).
2451
2452void EVP_DecryptInit(
2453EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2454EVP_CIPHER *type,
2455unsigned char *key,
2456unsigned char *iv);
2457 This function is basically the same as EVP_EncryptInit() accept that
2458 is prepares the EVP_CIPHER_CTX for decryption.
2459
2460void EVP_DecryptUpdate(
2461EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2462unsigned char *out,
2463int *outl,
2464unsigned char *in,
2465int inl);
2466 This function is basically the same as EVP_EncryptUpdate()
2467 except that it performs decryption. There is one
2468 fundamental difference though. 'out' can not be the same as
2469 'in' for any ciphers with a block size greater than 1 if more
2470 than one call to EVP_DecryptUpdate() will be made. This
2471 is because this routine can hold a 'partial' block between
2472 calls. When a partial block is decrypted (due to more bytes
2473 being passed via this function, they will be written to 'out'
2474 overwriting the input bytes in 'in' that have not been read
2475 yet. From this it should also be noted that 'out' should
2476 be at least one 'block size' larger than 'inl'. This problem
2477 only occurs on the second and subsequent call to
2478 EVP_DecryptUpdate() when using a block cipher.
2479
2480int EVP_DecryptFinal(
2481EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2482unsigned char *out,
2483int *outl);
2484 This function is different to EVP_EncryptFinal in that it 'removes'
2485 any padding bytes appended when the data was encrypted. Due to the
2486 way in which 1 to 8 bytes may have been appended when encryption
2487 using a block cipher, 'out' can end up with 0 to 7 bytes being put
2488 into it. When decoding the padding bytes, it is possible to detect
2489 an incorrect decryption. If the decryption appears to be wrong, 0
2490 is returned. If everything seems ok, 1 is returned. For ciphers
2491 with a block size of 1 (RC4), this function would normally not
2492 return any bytes and would always return 1. Just because this
2493 function returns 1 does not mean the decryption was correct. It
2494 would normally be wrong due to either the wrong key/iv or
2495 corruption of the cipher data fed to EVP_DecryptUpdate().
2496 As for EVP_EncryptFinal, it is a good idea to zero the
2497 EVP_CIPHER_CTX after use since the structure contains the key used
2498 to decrypt the data.
2499
2500The following Cipher routines are convenience routines that call either
2501EVP_EncryptXxx or EVP_DecryptXxx depending on weather the EVP_CIPHER_CTX
2502was setup to encrypt or decrypt.
2503
2504void EVP_CipherInit(
2505EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2506EVP_CIPHER *type,
2507unsigned char *key,
2508unsigned char *iv,
2509int enc);
2510 This function take arguments that are the same as EVP_EncryptInit()
2511 and EVP_DecryptInit() except for the extra 'enc' flag. If 1, the
2512 EVP_CIPHER_CTX is setup for encryption, if 0, decryption.
2513
2514void EVP_CipherUpdate(
2515EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2516unsigned char *out,
2517int *outl,
2518unsigned char *in,
2519int inl);
2520 Again this function calls either EVP_EncryptUpdate() or
2521 EVP_DecryptUpdate() depending on state in the 'ctx' structure.
2522 As noted for EVP_DecryptUpdate(), when this routine is used
2523 for decryption with block ciphers, 'out' should not be the
2524 same as 'in'.
2525
2526int EVP_CipherFinal(
2527EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,
2528unsigned char *outm,
2529int *outl);
2530 This routine call EVP_EncryptFinal() or EVP_DecryptFinal()
2531 depending on the state information in 'ctx'. 1 is always returned
2532 if the mode is encryption, otherwise the return value is the return
2533 value of EVP_DecryptFinal().
2534
2535==== cipher.m ========================================================
2536
2537Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:16:14 +1000 (EST)
2538From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.com>
2539X-Sender: eay@orb
2540To: Roland Haring <rharing@tandem.cl>
2541Cc: ssl-users@mincom.com
2542Subject: Re: Symmetric encryption with ssleay
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2551
2552On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Roland Haring wrote:
2553> THE_POINT:
2554> Would somebody be so kind to give me the minimum basic
2555> calls I need to do to libcrypto.a to get some text encrypted
2556> and decrypted again? ...hopefully with code included to do
2557> base64 encryption and decryption ... e.g. that sign-it.c code
2558> posted some while ago was a big help :-) (please, do not point
2559> me to apps/enc.c where I suspect my Heissenbug to be hidden :-)
2560
2561Ok, the base64 encoding stuff in 'enc.c' does the wrong thing sometimes
2562when the data is less than a line long (this is for decoding). I'll dig
2563up the exact fix today and post it. I am taking longer on 0.6.5 than I
2564intended so I'll just post this patch.
2565
2566The documentation to read is in
2567doc/cipher.doc,
2568doc/encode.doc (very sparse :-).
2569and perhaps
2570doc/digest.doc,
2571
2572The basic calls to encrypt with say triple DES are
2573
2574Given
2575char key[EVP_MAX_KEY_LENGTH];
2576char iv[EVP_MAX_IV_LENGTH];
2577EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
2578unsigned char out[512+8];
2579int outl;
2580
2581/* optional generation of key/iv data from text password using md5
2582 * via an upward compatable verson of PKCS#5. */
2583EVP_BytesToKey(EVP_des_ede3_cbc,EVP_md5,NULL,passwd,strlen(passwd),
2584 key,iv);
2585
2586/* Initalise the EVP_CIPHER_CTX */
2587EVP_EncryptInit(ctx,EVP_des_ede3_cbc,key,iv);
2588
2589while (....)
2590 {
2591 /* This is processing 512 bytes at a time, the bytes are being
2592 * copied into 'out', outl bytes are output. 'out' should not be the
2593 * same as 'in' for reasons mentioned in the documentation. */
2594 EVP_EncryptUpdate(ctx,out,&outl,in,512);
2595 }
2596
2597/* Output the last 'block'. If the cipher is a block cipher, the last
2598 * block is encoded in such a way so that a wrong decryption will normally be
2599 * detected - again, one of the PKCS standards. */
2600
2601EVP_EncryptFinal(ctx,out,&outl);
2602
2603To decrypt, use the EVP_DecryptXXXXX functions except that EVP_DecryptFinal()
2604will return 0 if the decryption fails (only detectable on block ciphers).
2605
2606You can also use
2607EVP_CipherInit()
2608EVP_CipherUpdate()
2609EVP_CipherFinal()
2610which does either encryption or decryption depending on an extra
2611parameter to EVP_CipherInit().
2612
2613
2614To do the base64 encoding,
2615EVP_EncodeInit()
2616EVP_EncodeUpdate()
2617EVP_EncodeFinal()
2618
2619EVP_DecodeInit()
2620EVP_DecodeUpdate()
2621EVP_DecodeFinal()
2622
2623where the encoding is quite simple, but the decoding can be a bit more
2624fun (due to dud input).
2625
2626EVP_DecodeUpdate() returns -1 for an error on an input line, 0 if the
2627'last line' was just processed, and 1 if more lines should be submitted.
2628
2629EVP_DecodeFinal() returns -1 for an error or 1 if things are ok.
2630
2631So the loop becomes
2632EVP_DecodeInit(....)
2633for (;;)
2634 {
2635 i=EVP_DecodeUpdate(....);
2636 if (i < 0) goto err;
2637
2638 /* process the data */
2639
2640 if (i == 0) break;
2641 }
2642EVP_DecodeFinal(....);
2643/* process the data */
2644
2645The problem in 'enc.c' is that I was stuff the processing up after the
2646EVP_DecodeFinal(...) when the for(..) loop was not being run (one line of
2647base64 data) and this was because 'enc.c' tries to scan over a file until
2648it hits the first valid base64 encoded line.
2649
2650hope this helps a bit.
2651eric
2652--
2653Eric Young | BOOL is tri-state according to Bill Gates.
2654AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | RTFM Win32 GetMessage().
2655
2656==== conf.doc ========================================================
2657
2658The CONF library.
2659
2660The CONF library is a simple set of routines that can be used to configure
2661programs. It is a superset of the genenv() function with some extra
2662structure.
2663
2664The library consists of 5 functions.
2665
2666LHASH *CONF_load(LHASH *config,char *file);
2667This function is called to load in a configuration file. Multiple
2668configuration files can be loaded, with each subsequent 'load' overwriting
2669any already defined 'variables'. If there is an error, NULL is returned.
2670If config is NULL, a new LHASH structure is created and returned, otherwise
2671the new data in the 'file' is loaded into the 'config' structure.
2672
2673void CONF_free(LHASH *config);
2674This function free()s the data in config.
2675
2676char *CONF_get_string(LHASH *config,char *section,char *name);
2677This function returns the string found in 'config' that corresponds to the
2678'section' and 'name' specified. Classes and the naming system used will be
2679discussed later in this document. If the variable is not defined, an NULL
2680is returned.
2681
2682long CONF_get_long(LHASH *config,char *section, char *name);
2683This function is the same as CONF_get_string() except that it converts the
2684string to an long and returns it. If variable is not a number or the
2685variable does not exist, 0 is returned. This is a little problematic but I
2686don't know of a simple way around it.
2687
2688STACK *CONF_get_section(LHASH *config, char *section);
2689This function returns a 'stack' of CONF_VALUE items that are all the
2690items defined in a particular section. DO NOT free() any of the
2691variable returned. They will disappear when CONF_free() is called.
2692
2693The 'lookup' model.
2694The configuration file is divided into 'sections'. Each section is started by
2695a line of the form '[ section ]'. All subsequent variable definitions are
2696of this section. A variable definition is a simple alpha-numeric name
2697followed by an '=' and then the data. A section or variable name can be
2698described by a regular expression of the following form '[A-Za-z0-9_]+'.
2699The value of the variable is the text after the '=' until the end of the
2700line, stripped of leading and trailing white space.
2701At this point I should mention that a '#' is a comment character, \ is the
2702escape character, and all three types of quote can be used to stop any
2703special interpretation of the data.
2704Now when the data is being loaded, variable expansion can occur. This is
2705done by expanding any $NAME sequences into the value represented by the
2706variable NAME. If the variable is not in the current section, the different
2707section can be specified by using the $SECTION::NAME form. The ${NAME} form
2708also works and is very useful for expanding variables inside strings.
2709
2710When a variable is looked up, there are 2 special section. 'default', which
2711is the initial section, and 'ENV' which is the processes environment
2712variables (accessed via getenv()). When a variable is looked up, it is
2713first 'matched' with it's section (if one was specified), if this fails, the
2714'default' section is matched.
2715If the 'lhash' variable passed was NULL, the environment is searched.
2716
2717Now why do we bother with sections? So we can have multiple programs using
2718the same configuration file, or multiple instances of the same program
2719using different variables. It also provides a nice mechanism to override
2720the processes environment variables (eg ENV::HOME=/tmp). If there is a
2721program specific variable missing, we can have default values.
2722Multiple configuration files can be loaded, with each new value clearing
2723any predefined values. A system config file can provide 'default' values,
2724and application/usr specific files can provide overriding values.
2725
2726Examples
2727
2728# This is a simple example
2729SSLEAY_HOME = /usr/local/ssl
2730ENV::PATH = $SSLEAY_HOME/bin:$PATH # override my path
2731
2732[X509]
2733cert_dir = $SSLEAY_HOME/certs # /usr/local/ssl/certs
2734
2735[SSL]
2736CIPHER = DES-EDE-MD5:RC4-MD5
2737USER_CERT = $HOME/${USER}di'r 5' # /home/eay/eaydir 5
2738USER_CERT = $HOME/\${USER}di\'r # /home/eay/${USER}di'r
2739USER_CERT = "$HOME/${US"ER}di\'r # $HOME/${USER}di'r
2740
2741TEST = 1234\
27425678\
27439ab # TEST=123456789ab
2744TTT = 1234\n\n # TTT=1234<nl><nl>
2745
2746
2747
2748==== des.doc ========================================================
2749
2750The DES library.
2751
2752Please note that this library was originally written to operate with
2753eBones, a version of Kerberos that had had encryption removed when it left
2754the USA and then put back in. As such there are some routines that I will
2755advise not using but they are still in the library for historical reasons.
2756For all calls that have an 'input' and 'output' variables, they can be the
2757same.
2758
2759This library requires the inclusion of 'des.h'.
2760
2761All of the encryption functions take what is called a des_key_schedule as an
2762argument. A des_key_schedule is an expanded form of the des key.
2763A des_key is 8 bytes of odd parity, the type used to hold the key is a
2764des_cblock. A des_cblock is an array of 8 bytes, often in this library
2765description I will refer to input bytes when the function specifies
2766des_cblock's as input or output, this just means that the variable should
2767be a multiple of 8 bytes.
2768
2769The define DES_ENCRYPT is passed to specify encryption, DES_DECRYPT to
2770specify decryption. The functions and global variable are as follows:
2771
2772int des_check_key;
2773 DES keys are supposed to be odd parity. If this variable is set to
2774 a non-zero value, des_set_key() will check that the key has odd
2775 parity and is not one of the known weak DES keys. By default this
2776 variable is turned off;
2777
2778void des_set_odd_parity(
2779des_cblock *key );
2780 This function takes a DES key (8 bytes) and sets the parity to odd.
2781
2782int des_is_weak_key(
2783des_cblock *key );
2784 This function returns a non-zero value if the DES key passed is a
2785 weak, DES key. If it is a weak key, don't use it, try a different
2786 one. If you are using 'random' keys, the chances of hitting a weak
2787 key are 1/2^52 so it is probably not worth checking for them.
2788
2789int des_set_key(
2790des_cblock *key,
2791des_key_schedule schedule);
2792 Des_set_key converts an 8 byte DES key into a des_key_schedule.
2793 A des_key_schedule is an expanded form of the key which is used to
2794 perform actual encryption. It can be regenerated from the DES key
2795 so it only needs to be kept when encryption or decryption is about
2796 to occur. Don't save or pass around des_key_schedule's since they
2797 are CPU architecture dependent, DES keys are not. If des_check_key
2798 is non zero, zero is returned if the key has the wrong parity or
2799 the key is a weak key, else 1 is returned.
2800
2801int des_key_sched(
2802des_cblock *key,
2803des_key_schedule schedule);
2804 An alternative name for des_set_key().
2805
2806int des_rw_mode; /* defaults to DES_PCBC_MODE */
2807 This flag holds either DES_CBC_MODE or DES_PCBC_MODE (default).
2808 This specifies the function to use in the enc_read() and enc_write()
2809 functions.
2810
2811void des_encrypt(
2812unsigned long *data,
2813des_key_schedule ks,
2814int enc);
2815 This is the DES encryption function that gets called by just about
2816 every other DES routine in the library. You should not use this
2817 function except to implement 'modes' of DES. I say this because the
2818 functions that call this routine do the conversion from 'char *' to
2819 long, and this needs to be done to make sure 'non-aligned' memory
2820 access do not occur. The characters are loaded 'little endian',
2821 have a look at my source code for more details on how I use this
2822 function.
2823 Data is a pointer to 2 unsigned long's and ks is the
2824 des_key_schedule to use. enc, is non zero specifies encryption,
2825 zero if decryption.
2826
2827void des_encrypt2(
2828unsigned long *data,
2829des_key_schedule ks,
2830int enc);
2831 This functions is the same as des_encrypt() except that the DES
2832 initial permutation (IP) and final permutation (FP) have been left
2833 out. As for des_encrypt(), you should not use this function.
2834 It is used by the routines in my library that implement triple DES.
2835 IP() des_encrypt2() des_encrypt2() des_encrypt2() FP() is the same
2836 as des_encrypt() des_encrypt() des_encrypt() except faster :-).
2837
2838void des_ecb_encrypt(
2839des_cblock *input,
2840des_cblock *output,
2841des_key_schedule ks,
2842int enc);
2843 This is the basic Electronic Code Book form of DES, the most basic
2844 form. Input is encrypted into output using the key represented by
2845 ks. If enc is non zero (DES_ENCRYPT), encryption occurs, otherwise
2846 decryption occurs. Input is 8 bytes long and output is 8 bytes.
2847 (the des_cblock structure is 8 chars).
2848
2849void des_ecb3_encrypt(
2850des_cblock *input,
2851des_cblock *output,
2852des_key_schedule ks1,
2853des_key_schedule ks2,
2854des_key_schedule ks3,
2855int enc);
2856 This is the 3 key EDE mode of ECB DES. What this means is that
2857 the 8 bytes of input is encrypted with ks1, decrypted with ks2 and
2858 then encrypted again with ks3, before being put into output;
2859 C=E(ks3,D(ks2,E(ks1,M))). There is a macro, des_ecb2_encrypt()
2860 that only takes 2 des_key_schedules that implements,
2861 C=E(ks1,D(ks2,E(ks1,M))) in that the final encrypt is done with ks1.
2862
2863void des_cbc_encrypt(
2864des_cblock *input,
2865des_cblock *output,
2866long length,
2867des_key_schedule ks,
2868des_cblock *ivec,
2869int enc);
2870 This routine implements DES in Cipher Block Chaining mode.
2871 Input, which should be a multiple of 8 bytes is encrypted
2872 (or decrypted) to output which will also be a multiple of 8 bytes.
2873 The number of bytes is in length (and from what I've said above,
2874 should be a multiple of 8). If length is not a multiple of 8, I'm
2875 not being held responsible :-). ivec is the initialisation vector.
2876 This function does not modify this variable. To correctly implement
2877 cbc mode, you need to do one of 2 things; copy the last 8 bytes of
2878 cipher text for use as the next ivec in your application,
2879 or use des_ncbc_encrypt().
2880 Only this routine has this problem with updating the ivec, all
2881 other routines that are implementing cbc mode update ivec.
2882
2883void des_ncbc_encrypt(
2884des_cblock *input,
2885des_cblock *output,
2886long length,
2887des_key_schedule sk,
2888des_cblock *ivec,
2889int enc);
2890 For historical reasons, des_cbc_encrypt() did not update the
2891 ivec with the value requires so that subsequent calls to
2892 des_cbc_encrypt() would 'chain'. This was needed so that the same
2893 'length' values would not need to be used when decrypting.
2894 des_ncbc_encrypt() does the right thing. It is the same as
2895 des_cbc_encrypt accept that ivec is updates with the correct value
2896 to pass in subsequent calls to des_ncbc_encrypt(). I advise using
2897 des_ncbc_encrypt() instead of des_cbc_encrypt();
2898
2899void des_xcbc_encrypt(
2900des_cblock *input,
2901des_cblock *output,
2902long length,
2903des_key_schedule sk,
2904des_cblock *ivec,
2905des_cblock *inw,
2906des_cblock *outw,
2907int enc);
2908 This is RSA's DESX mode of DES. It uses inw and outw to
2909 'whiten' the encryption. inw and outw are secret (unlike the iv)
2910 and are as such, part of the key. So the key is sort of 24 bytes.
2911 This is much better than cbc des.
2912
2913void des_3cbc_encrypt(
2914des_cblock *input,
2915des_cblock *output,
2916long length,
2917des_key_schedule sk1,
2918des_key_schedule sk2,
2919des_cblock *ivec1,
2920des_cblock *ivec2,
2921int enc);
2922 This function is flawed, do not use it. I have left it in the
2923 library because it is used in my des(1) program and will function
2924 correctly when used by des(1). If I removed the function, people
2925 could end up unable to decrypt files.
2926 This routine implements outer triple cbc encryption using 2 ks and
2927 2 ivec's. Use des_ede2_cbc_encrypt() instead.
2928
2929void des_ede3_cbc_encrypt(
2930des_cblock *input,
2931des_cblock *output,
2932long length,
2933des_key_schedule ks1,
2934des_key_schedule ks2,
2935des_key_schedule ks3,
2936des_cblock *ivec,
2937int enc);
2938 This function implements outer triple CBC DES encryption with 3
2939 keys. What this means is that each 'DES' operation
2940 inside the cbc mode is really an C=E(ks3,D(ks2,E(ks1,M))).
2941 Again, this is cbc mode so an ivec is requires.
2942 This mode is used by SSL.
2943 There is also a des_ede2_cbc_encrypt() that only uses 2
2944 des_key_schedule's, the first being reused for the final
2945 encryption. C=E(ks1,D(ks2,E(ks1,M))). This form of triple DES
2946 is used by the RSAref library.
2947
2948void des_pcbc_encrypt(
2949des_cblock *input,
2950des_cblock *output,
2951long length,
2952des_key_schedule ks,
2953des_cblock *ivec,
2954int enc);
2955 This is Propagating Cipher Block Chaining mode of DES. It is used
2956 by Kerberos v4. It's parameters are the same as des_ncbc_encrypt().
2957
2958void des_cfb_encrypt(
2959unsigned char *in,
2960unsigned char *out,
2961int numbits,
2962long length,
2963des_key_schedule ks,
2964des_cblock *ivec,
2965int enc);
2966 Cipher Feedback Back mode of DES. This implementation 'feeds back'
2967 in numbit blocks. The input (and output) is in multiples of numbits
2968 bits. numbits should to be a multiple of 8 bits. Length is the
2969 number of bytes input. If numbits is not a multiple of 8 bits,
2970 the extra bits in the bytes will be considered padding. So if
2971 numbits is 12, for each 2 input bytes, the 4 high bits of the
2972 second byte will be ignored. So to encode 72 bits when using
2973 a numbits of 12 take 12 bytes. To encode 72 bits when using
2974 numbits of 9 will take 16 bytes. To encode 80 bits when using
2975 numbits of 16 will take 10 bytes. etc, etc. This padding will
2976 apply to both input and output.
2977
2978
2979void des_cfb64_encrypt(
2980unsigned char *in,
2981unsigned char *out,
2982long length,
2983des_key_schedule ks,
2984des_cblock *ivec,
2985int *num,
2986int enc);
2987 This is one of the more useful functions in this DES library, it
2988 implements CFB mode of DES with 64bit feedback. Why is this
2989 useful you ask? Because this routine will allow you to encrypt an
2990 arbitrary number of bytes, no 8 byte padding. Each call to this
2991 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
2992 and num. num contains 'how far' we are though ivec. If this does
2993 not make much sense, read more about cfb mode of DES :-).
2994
2995void des_ede3_cfb64_encrypt(
2996unsigned char *in,
2997unsigned char *out,
2998long length,
2999des_key_schedule ks1,
3000des_key_schedule ks2,
3001des_key_schedule ks3,
3002des_cblock *ivec,
3003int *num,
3004int enc);
3005 Same as des_cfb64_encrypt() accept that the DES operation is
3006 triple DES. As usual, there is a macro for
3007 des_ede2_cfb64_encrypt() which reuses ks1.
3008
3009void des_ofb_encrypt(
3010unsigned char *in,
3011unsigned char *out,
3012int numbits,
3013long length,
3014des_key_schedule ks,
3015des_cblock *ivec);
3016 This is a implementation of Output Feed Back mode of DES. It is
3017 the same as des_cfb_encrypt() in that numbits is the size of the
3018 units dealt with during input and output (in bits).
3019
3020void des_ofb64_encrypt(
3021unsigned char *in,
3022unsigned char *out,
3023long length,
3024des_key_schedule ks,
3025des_cblock *ivec,
3026int *num);
3027 The same as des_cfb64_encrypt() except that it is Output Feed Back
3028 mode.
3029
3030void des_ede3_ofb64_encrypt(
3031unsigned char *in,
3032unsigned char *out,
3033long length,
3034des_key_schedule ks1,
3035des_key_schedule ks2,
3036des_key_schedule ks3,
3037des_cblock *ivec,
3038int *num);
3039 Same as des_ofb64_encrypt() accept that the DES operation is
3040 triple DES. As usual, there is a macro for
3041 des_ede2_ofb64_encrypt() which reuses ks1.
3042
3043int des_read_pw_string(
3044char *buf,
3045int length,
3046char *prompt,
3047int verify);
3048 This routine is used to get a password from the terminal with echo
3049 turned off. Buf is where the string will end up and length is the
3050 size of buf. Prompt is a string presented to the 'user' and if
3051 verify is set, the key is asked for twice and unless the 2 copies
3052 match, an error is returned. A return code of -1 indicates a
3053 system error, 1 failure due to use interaction, and 0 is success.
3054
3055unsigned long des_cbc_cksum(
3056des_cblock *input,
3057des_cblock *output,
3058long length,
3059des_key_schedule ks,
3060des_cblock *ivec);
3061 This function produces an 8 byte checksum from input that it puts in
3062 output and returns the last 4 bytes as a long. The checksum is
3063 generated via cbc mode of DES in which only the last 8 byes are
3064 kept. I would recommend not using this function but instead using
3065 the EVP_Digest routines, or at least using MD5 or SHA. This
3066 function is used by Kerberos v4 so that is why it stays in the
3067 library.
3068
3069char *des_fcrypt(
3070const char *buf,
3071const char *salt
3072char *ret);
3073 This is my fast version of the unix crypt(3) function. This version
3074 takes only a small amount of space relative to other fast
3075 crypt() implementations. This is different to the normal crypt
3076 in that the third parameter is the buffer that the return value
3077 is written into. It needs to be at least 14 bytes long. This
3078 function is thread safe, unlike the normal crypt.
3079
3080char *crypt(
3081const char *buf,
3082const char *salt);
3083 This function calls des_fcrypt() with a static array passed as the
3084 third parameter. This emulates the normal non-thread safe semantics
3085 of crypt(3).
3086
3087void des_string_to_key(
3088char *str,
3089des_cblock *key);
3090 This function takes str and converts it into a DES key. I would
3091 recommend using MD5 instead and use the first 8 bytes of output.
3092 When I wrote the first version of these routines back in 1990, MD5
3093 did not exist but I feel these routines are still sound. This
3094 routines is compatible with the one in MIT's libdes.
3095
3096void des_string_to_2keys(
3097char *str,
3098des_cblock *key1,
3099des_cblock *key2);
3100 This function takes str and converts it into 2 DES keys.
3101 I would recommend using MD5 and using the 16 bytes as the 2 keys.
3102 I have nothing against these 2 'string_to_key' routines, it's just
3103 that if you say that your encryption key is generated by using the
3104 16 bytes of an MD5 hash, every-one knows how you generated your
3105 keys.
3106
3107int des_read_password(
3108des_cblock *key,
3109char *prompt,
3110int verify);
3111 This routine combines des_read_pw_string() with des_string_to_key().
3112
3113int des_read_2passwords(
3114des_cblock *key1,
3115des_cblock *key2,
3116char *prompt,
3117int verify);
3118 This routine combines des_read_pw_string() with des_string_to_2key().
3119
3120void des_random_seed(
3121des_cblock key);
3122 This routine sets a starting point for des_random_key().
3123
3124void des_random_key(
3125des_cblock ret);
3126 This function return a random key. Make sure to 'seed' the random
3127 number generator (with des_random_seed()) before using this function.
3128 I personally now use a MD5 based random number system.
3129
3130int des_enc_read(
3131int fd,
3132char *buf,
3133int len,
3134des_key_schedule ks,
3135des_cblock *iv);
3136 This function will write to a file descriptor the encrypted data
3137 from buf. This data will be preceded by a 4 byte 'byte count' and
3138 will be padded out to 8 bytes. The encryption is either CBC of
3139 PCBC depending on the value of des_rw_mode. If it is DES_PCBC_MODE,
3140 pcbc is used, if DES_CBC_MODE, cbc is used. The default is to use
3141 DES_PCBC_MODE.
3142
3143int des_enc_write(
3144int fd,
3145char *buf,
3146int len,
3147des_key_schedule ks,
3148des_cblock *iv);
3149 This routines read stuff written by des_enc_read() and decrypts it.
3150 I have used these routines quite a lot but I don't believe they are
3151 suitable for non-blocking io. If you are after a full
3152 authentication/encryption over networks, have a look at SSL instead.
3153
3154unsigned long des_quad_cksum(
3155des_cblock *input,
3156des_cblock *output,
3157long length,
3158int out_count,
3159des_cblock *seed);
3160 This is a function from Kerberos v4 that is not anything to do with
3161 DES but was needed. It is a cksum that is quicker to generate than
3162 des_cbc_cksum(); I personally would use MD5 routines now.
3163=====
3164Modes of DES
3165Quite a bit of the following information has been taken from
3166 AS 2805.5.2
3167 Australian Standard
3168 Electronic funds transfer - Requirements for interfaces,
3169 Part 5.2: Modes of operation for an n-bit block cipher algorithm
3170 Appendix A
3171
3172There are several different modes in which DES can be used, they are
3173as follows.
3174
3175Electronic Codebook Mode (ECB) (des_ecb_encrypt())
3176- 64 bits are enciphered at a time.
3177- The order of the blocks can be rearranged without detection.
3178- The same plaintext block always produces the same ciphertext block
3179 (for the same key) making it vulnerable to a 'dictionary attack'.
3180- An error will only affect one ciphertext block.
3181
3182Cipher Block Chaining Mode (CBC) (des_cbc_encrypt())
3183- a multiple of 64 bits are enciphered at a time.
3184- The CBC mode produces the same ciphertext whenever the same
3185 plaintext is encrypted using the same key and starting variable.
3186- The chaining operation makes the ciphertext blocks dependent on the
3187 current and all preceding plaintext blocks and therefore blocks can not
3188 be rearranged.
3189- The use of different starting variables prevents the same plaintext
3190 enciphering to the same ciphertext.
3191- An error will affect the current and the following ciphertext blocks.
3192
3193Cipher Feedback Mode (CFB) (des_cfb_encrypt())
3194- a number of bits (j) <= 64 are enciphered at a time.
3195- The CFB mode produces the same ciphertext whenever the same
3196 plaintext is encrypted using the same key and starting variable.
3197- The chaining operation makes the ciphertext variables dependent on the
3198 current and all preceding variables and therefore j-bit variables are
3199 chained together and can not be rearranged.
3200- The use of different starting variables prevents the same plaintext
3201 enciphering to the same ciphertext.
3202- The strength of the CFB mode depends on the size of k (maximal if
3203 j == k). In my implementation this is always the case.
3204- Selection of a small value for j will require more cycles through
3205 the encipherment algorithm per unit of plaintext and thus cause
3206 greater processing overheads.
3207- Only multiples of j bits can be enciphered.
3208- An error will affect the current and the following ciphertext variables.
3209
3210Output Feedback Mode (OFB) (des_ofb_encrypt())
3211- a number of bits (j) <= 64 are enciphered at a time.
3212- The OFB mode produces the same ciphertext whenever the same
3213 plaintext enciphered using the same key and starting variable. More
3214 over, in the OFB mode the same key stream is produced when the same
3215 key and start variable are used. Consequently, for security reasons
3216 a specific start variable should be used only once for a given key.
3217- The absence of chaining makes the OFB more vulnerable to specific attacks.
3218- The use of different start variables values prevents the same
3219 plaintext enciphering to the same ciphertext, by producing different
3220 key streams.
3221- Selection of a small value for j will require more cycles through
3222 the encipherment algorithm per unit of plaintext and thus cause
3223 greater processing overheads.
3224- Only multiples of j bits can be enciphered.
3225- OFB mode of operation does not extend ciphertext errors in the
3226 resultant plaintext output. Every bit error in the ciphertext causes
3227 only one bit to be in error in the deciphered plaintext.
3228- OFB mode is not self-synchronising. If the two operation of
3229 encipherment and decipherment get out of synchronism, the system needs
3230 to be re-initialised.
3231- Each re-initialisation should use a value of the start variable
3232 different from the start variable values used before with the same
3233 key. The reason for this is that an identical bit stream would be
3234 produced each time from the same parameters. This would be
3235 susceptible to a ' known plaintext' attack.
3236
3237Triple ECB Mode (des_ecb3_encrypt())
3238- Encrypt with key1, decrypt with key2 and encrypt with key3 again.
3239- As for ECB encryption but increases the key length to 168 bits.
3240 There are theoretic attacks that can be used that make the effective
3241 key length 112 bits, but this attack also requires 2^56 blocks of
3242 memory, not very likely, even for the NSA.
3243- If both keys are the same it is equivalent to encrypting once with
3244 just one key.
3245- If the first and last key are the same, the key length is 112 bits.
3246 There are attacks that could reduce the key space to 55 bit's but it
3247 requires 2^56 blocks of memory.
3248- If all 3 keys are the same, this is effectively the same as normal
3249 ecb mode.
3250
3251Triple CBC Mode (des_ede3_cbc_encrypt())
3252- Encrypt with key1, decrypt with key2 and then encrypt with key3.
3253- As for CBC encryption but increases the key length to 168 bits with
3254 the same restrictions as for triple ecb mode.
3255
3256==== digest.doc ========================================================
3257
3258
3259The Message Digest subroutines.
3260
3261These routines require "evp.h" to be included.
3262
3263These functions are a higher level interface to the various message digest
3264routines found in this library. As such, they allow the same code to be
3265used to digest via different algorithms with only a change in an initial
3266parameter. They are basically just a front-end to the MD2, MD5, SHA
3267and SHA1
3268routines.
3269
3270These routines all take a pointer to the following structure to specify
3271which message digest algorithm to use.
3272typedef struct evp_md_st
3273 {
3274 int type;
3275 int pkey_type;
3276 int md_size;
3277 void (*init)();
3278 void (*update)();
3279 void (*final)();
3280
3281 int required_pkey_type; /*EVP_PKEY_xxx */
3282 int (*sign)();
3283 int (*verify)();
3284 } EVP_MD;
3285
3286If additional message digest algorithms are to be supported, a structure of
3287this type needs to be declared and populated and then the Digest routines
3288can be used with that algorithm. The type field is the object NID of the
3289digest type (read the section on Objects for an explanation). The pkey_type
3290is the Object type to use when the a message digest is generated by there
3291routines and then is to be signed with the pkey algorithm. Md_size is
3292the size of the message digest returned. Init, update
3293and final are the relevant functions to perform the message digest function
3294by parts. One reason for specifying the message digest to use via this
3295mechanism is that if you only use md5, only the md5 routines will
3296be included in you linked program. If you passed an integer
3297that specified which message digest to use, the routine that mapped that
3298integer to a set of message digest functions would cause all the message
3299digests functions to be link into the code. This setup also allows new
3300message digest functions to be added by the application.
3301
3302The six message digests defined in this library are
3303
3304EVP_MD *EVP_md2(void); /* RSA sign/verify */
3305EVP_MD *EVP_md5(void); /* RSA sign/verify */
3306EVP_MD *EVP_sha(void); /* RSA sign/verify */
3307EVP_MD *EVP_sha1(void); /* RSA sign/verify */
3308EVP_MD *EVP_dss(void); /* DSA sign/verify */
3309EVP_MD *EVP_dss1(void); /* DSA sign/verify */
3310
3311All the message digest routines take a EVP_MD_CTX pointer as an argument.
3312The state of the message digest is kept in this structure.
3313
3314typedef struct pem_md_ctx_st
3315 {
3316 EVP_MD *digest;
3317 union {
3318 unsigned char base[4]; /* this is used in my library as a
3319 * 'pointer' to all union elements
3320 * structures. */
3321 MD2_CTX md2;
3322 MD5_CTX md5;
3323 SHA_CTX sha;
3324 } md;
3325 } EVP_MD_CTX;
3326
3327The Digest functions are as follows.
3328
3329void EVP_DigestInit(
3330EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
3331EVP_MD *type);
3332 This function is used to initialise the EVP_MD_CTX. The message
3333 digest that will associated with 'ctx' is specified by 'type'.
3334
3335void EVP_DigestUpdate(
3336EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
3337unsigned char *data,
3338unsigned int cnt);
3339 This function is used to pass more data to the message digest
3340 function. 'cnt' bytes are digested from 'data'.
3341
3342void EVP_DigestFinal(
3343EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
3344unsigned char *md,
3345unsigned int *len);
3346 This function finishes the digestion and puts the message digest
3347 into 'md'. The length of the message digest is put into len;
3348 EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE is the size of the largest message digest that
3349 can be returned from this function. Len can be NULL if the
3350 size of the digest is not required.
3351
3352
3353==== encode.doc ========================================================
3354
3355
3356void EVP_EncodeInit(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx);
3357void EVP_EncodeUpdate(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx,unsigned char *out,
3358 int *outl,unsigned char *in,int inl);
3359void EVP_EncodeFinal(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx,unsigned char *out,int *outl);
3360int EVP_EncodeBlock(unsigned char *t, unsigned char *f, int n);
3361
3362void EVP_DecodeInit(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx);
3363int EVP_DecodeUpdate(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx,unsigned char *out,int *outl,
3364 unsigned char *in, int inl);
3365int EVP_DecodeFinal(EVP_ENCODE_CTX *ctx, unsigned
3366 char *out, int *outl);
3367int EVP_DecodeBlock(unsigned char *t, unsigned
3368 char *f, int n);
3369
3370
3371==== envelope.doc ========================================================
3372
3373The following routines are use to create 'digital' envelopes.
3374By this I mean that they perform various 'higher' level cryptographic
3375functions. Have a read of 'cipher.doc' and 'digest.doc' since those
3376routines are used by these functions.
3377cipher.doc contains documentation about the cipher part of the
3378envelope library and digest.doc contatins the description of the
3379message digests supported.
3380
3381To 'sign' a document involves generating a message digest and then encrypting
3382the digest with an private key.
3383
3384#define EVP_SignInit(a,b) EVP_DigestInit(a,b)
3385#define EVP_SignUpdate(a,b,c) EVP_DigestUpdate(a,b,c)
3386Due to the fact this operation is basically just an extended message
3387digest, the first 2 functions are macro calls to Digest generating
3388functions.
3389
3390int EVP_SignFinal(
3391EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
3392unsigned char *md,
3393unsigned int *s,
3394EVP_PKEY *pkey);
3395 This finalisation function finishes the generation of the message
3396digest and then encrypts the digest (with the correct message digest
3397object identifier) with the EVP_PKEY private key. 'ctx' is the message digest
3398context. 'md' will end up containing the encrypted message digest. This
3399array needs to be EVP_PKEY_size(pkey) bytes long. 's' will actually
3400contain the exact length. 'pkey' of course is the private key. It is
3401one of EVP_PKEY_RSA or EVP_PKEY_DSA type.
3402If there is an error, 0 is returned, otherwise 1.
3403
3404Verify is used to check an signed message digest.
3405
3406#define EVP_VerifyInit(a,b) EVP_DigestInit(a,b)
3407#define EVP_VerifyUpdate(a,b,c) EVP_DigestUpdate(a,b,c)
3408Since the first step is to generate a message digest, the first 2 functions
3409are macros.
3410
3411int EVP_VerifyFinal(
3412EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,
3413unsigned char *md,
3414unsigned int s,
3415EVP_PKEY *pkey);
3416 This function finishes the generation of the message digest and then
3417compares it with the supplied encrypted message digest. 'md' contains the
3418's' bytes of encrypted message digest. 'pkey' is used to public key decrypt
3419the digest. It is then compared with the message digest just generated.
3420If they match, 1 is returned else 0.
3421
3422int EVP_SealInit(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, EVP_CIPHER *type, unsigned char **ek,
3423 int *ekl, unsigned char *iv, EVP_PKEY **pubk, int npubk);
3424Must have at least one public key, error is 0. I should also mention that
3425the buffers pointed to by 'ek' need to be EVP_PKEY_size(pubk[n]) is size.
3426
3427#define EVP_SealUpdate(a,b,c,d,e) EVP_EncryptUpdate(a,b,c,d,e)
3428void EVP_SealFinal(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,unsigned char *out,int *outl);
3429
3430
3431int EVP_OpenInit(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx,EVP_CIPHER *type,unsigned char *ek,
3432 int ekl,unsigned char *iv,EVP_PKEY *priv);
34330 on failure
3434
3435#define EVP_OpenUpdate(a,b,c,d,e) EVP_DecryptUpdate(a,b,c,d,e)
3436
3437int EVP_OpenFinal(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *out, int *outl);
3438Decrypt final return code
3439
3440
3441==== error.doc ========================================================
3442
3443The error routines.
3444
3445The 'error' system I've implemented is intended to server 2 purpose, to
3446record the reason why a command failed and to record where in the libraries
3447the failure occurred. It is more or less setup to record a 'trace' of which
3448library components were being traversed when the error occurred.
3449
3450When an error is recorded, it is done so a as single unsigned long which is
3451composed of three parts. The top byte is the 'library' number, the middle
345212 bytes is the function code, and the bottom 12 bits is the 'reason' code.
3453
3454Each 'library', or should a say, 'section' of the SSLeay library has a
3455different unique 'library' error number. Each function in the library has
3456a number that is unique for that library. Each 'library' also has a number
3457for each 'error reason' that is only unique for that 'library'.
3458
3459Due to the way these error routines record a 'error trace', there is an
3460array per thread that is used to store the error codes.
3461The various functions in this library are used to access
3462and manipulate this array.
3463
3464void ERR_put_error(int lib, int func,int reason);
3465 This routine records an error in library 'lib', function 'func'
3466and reason 'reason'. As errors get 'put' into the buffer, they wrap
3467around and overwrite old errors if too many are written. It is assumed
3468that the last errors are the most important.
3469
3470unsigned long ERR_get_error(void );
3471 This function returns the last error added to the error buffer.
3472In effect it is popping the value off the buffer so repeated calls will
3473continue to return values until there are no more errors to return in which
3474case 0 is returned.
3475
3476unsigned long ERR_peek_error(void );
3477 This function returns the value of the last error added to the
3478error buffer but does not 'pop' it from the buffer.
3479
3480void ERR_clear_error(void );
3481 This function clears the error buffer, discarding all unread
3482errors.
3483
3484While the above described error system obviously produces lots of different
3485error number, a method for 'reporting' these errors in a human readable
3486form is required. To achieve this, each library has the option of
3487'registering' error strings.
3488
3489typedef struct ERR_string_data_st
3490 {
3491 unsigned long error;
3492 char *string;
3493 } ERR_STRING_DATA;
3494
3495The 'ERR_STRING_DATA' contains an error code and the corresponding text
3496string. To add new function error strings for a library, the
3497ERR_STRING_DATA needs to be 'registered' with the library.
3498
3499void ERR_load_strings(unsigned long lib,ERR_STRING_DATA *err);
3500 This function 'registers' the array of ERR_STRING_DATA pointed to by
3501'err' as error text strings for the error library 'lib'.
3502
3503void ERR_free_strings(void);
3504 This function free()s all the loaded error strings.
3505
3506char *ERR_error_string(unsigned long error,char *buf);
3507 This function returns a text string that is a human readable
3508version of the error represented by 'error'. Buff should be at least 120
3509bytes long and if it is NULL, the return value is a pointer to a static
3510variable that will contain the error string, otherwise 'buf' is returned.
3511If there is not a text string registered for a particular error, a text
3512string containing the error number is returned instead.
3513
3514void ERR_print_errors(BIO *bp);
3515void ERR_print_errors_fp(FILE *fp);
3516 This function is a convenience routine that prints the error string
3517for each error until all errors have been accounted for.
3518
3519char *ERR_lib_error_string(unsigned long e);
3520char *ERR_func_error_string(unsigned long e);
3521char *ERR_reason_error_string(unsigned long e);
3522The above three functions return the 3 different components strings for the
3523error 'e'. ERR_error_string() uses these functions.
3524
3525void ERR_load_ERR_strings(void );
3526 This function 'registers' the error strings for the 'ERR' module.
3527
3528void ERR_load_crypto_strings(void );
3529 This function 'register' the error strings for just about every
3530library in the SSLeay package except for the SSL routines. There is no
3531need to ever register any error text strings and you will probably save in
3532program size. If on the other hand you do 'register' all errors, it is
3533quite easy to determine why a particular routine failed.
3534
3535As a final footnote as to why the error system is designed as it is.
35361) I did not want a single 'global' error code.
35372) I wanted to know which subroutine a failure occurred in.
35383) For Windows NT etc, it should be simple to replace the 'key' routines
3539 with code to pass error codes back to the application.
35404) I wanted the option of meaningful error text strings.
3541
3542Late breaking news - the changes to support threads.
3543
3544Each 'thread' has an 'ERR_STATE' state associated with it.
3545ERR_STATE *ERR_get_state(void ) will return the 'state' for the calling
3546thread/process.
3547
3548ERR_remove_state(unsigned long pid); will 'free()' this state. If pid == 0
3549the current 'thread/process' will have it's error state removed.
3550If you do not remove the error state of a thread, this could be considered a
3551form of memory leak, so just after 'reaping' a thread that has died,
3552call ERR_remove_state(pid).
3553
3554Have a read of thread.doc for more details for what is required for
3555multi-threading support. All the other error routines will
3556work correctly when using threads.
3557
3558
3559==== idea.doc ========================================================
3560
3561The IDEA library.
3562IDEA is a block cipher that operates on 64bit (8 byte) quantities. It
3563uses a 128bit (16 byte) key. It can be used in all the modes that DES can
3564be used. This library implements the ecb, cbc, cfb64 and ofb64 modes.
3565
3566For all calls that have an 'input' and 'output' variables, they can be the
3567same.
3568
3569This library requires the inclusion of 'idea.h'.
3570
3571All of the encryption functions take what is called an IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE as an
3572argument. An IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE is an expanded form of the idea key.
3573For all modes of the IDEA algorithm, the IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE used for
3574decryption is different to the one used for encryption.
3575
3576The define IDEA_ENCRYPT is passed to specify encryption for the functions
3577that require an encryption/decryption flag. IDEA_DECRYPT is passed to
3578specify decryption. For some mode there is no encryption/decryption
3579flag since this is determined by the IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE.
3580
3581So to encrypt you would do the following
3582idea_set_encrypt_key(key,encrypt_ks);
3583idea_ecb_encrypt(...,encrypt_ks);
3584idea_cbc_encrypt(....,encrypt_ks,...,IDEA_ENCRYPT);
3585
3586To Decrypt
3587idea_set_encrypt_key(key,encrypt_ks);
3588idea_set_decrypt_key(encrypt_ks,decrypt_ks);
3589idea_ecb_encrypt(...,decrypt_ks);
3590idea_cbc_encrypt(....,decrypt_ks,...,IDEA_DECRYPT);
3591
3592Please note that any of the encryption modes specified in my DES library
3593could be used with IDEA. I have only implemented ecb, cbc, cfb64 and
3594ofb64 for the following reasons.
3595- ecb is the basic IDEA encryption.
3596- cbc is the normal 'chaining' form for block ciphers.
3597- cfb64 can be used to encrypt single characters, therefore input and output
3598 do not need to be a multiple of 8.
3599- ofb64 is similar to cfb64 but is more like a stream cipher, not as
3600 secure (not cipher feedback) but it does not have an encrypt/decrypt mode.
3601- If you want triple IDEA, thats 384 bits of key and you must be totally
3602 obsessed with security. Still, if you want it, it is simple enough to
3603 copy the function from the DES library and change the des_encrypt to
3604 idea_encrypt; an exercise left for the paranoid reader :-).
3605
3606The functions are as follows:
3607
3608void idea_set_encrypt_key(
3609unsigned char *key;
3610IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE *ks);
3611 idea_set_encrypt_key converts a 16 byte IDEA key into an
3612 IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE. The IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE is an expanded form of
3613 the key which can be used to perform IDEA encryption.
3614 An IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE is an expanded form of the key which is used to
3615 perform actual encryption. It can be regenerated from the IDEA key
3616 so it only needs to be kept when encryption is about
3617 to occur. Don't save or pass around IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE's since they
3618 are CPU architecture dependent, IDEA keys are not.
3619
3620void idea_set_decrypt_key(
3621IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE *encrypt_ks,
3622IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE *decrypt_ks);
3623 This functions converts an encryption IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE into a
3624 decryption IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE. For all decryption, this conversion
3625 of the key must be done. In some modes of IDEA, an
3626 encryption/decryption flag is also required, this is because these
3627 functions involve block chaining and the way this is done changes
3628 depending on which of encryption of decryption is being done.
3629 Please note that there is no quick way to generate the decryption
3630 key schedule other than generating the encryption key schedule and
3631 then converting it.
3632
3633void idea_encrypt(
3634unsigned long *data,
3635IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE *ks);
3636 This is the IDEA encryption function that gets called by just about
3637 every other IDEA routine in the library. You should not use this
3638 function except to implement 'modes' of IDEA. I say this because the
3639 functions that call this routine do the conversion from 'char *' to
3640 long, and this needs to be done to make sure 'non-aligned' memory
3641 access do not occur.
3642 Data is a pointer to 2 unsigned long's and ks is the
3643 IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE to use. Encryption or decryption depends on the
3644 IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE.
3645
3646void idea_ecb_encrypt(
3647unsigned char *input,
3648unsigned char *output,
3649IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE *ks);
3650 This is the basic Electronic Code Book form of IDEA (in DES this
3651 mode is called Electronic Code Book so I'm going to use the term
3652 for idea as well :-).
3653 Input is encrypted into output using the key represented by
3654 ks. Depending on the IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE, encryption or
3655 decryption occurs. Input is 8 bytes long and output is 8 bytes.
3656
3657void idea_cbc_encrypt(
3658unsigned char *input,
3659unsigned char *output,
3660long length,
3661IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE *ks,
3662unsigned char *ivec,
3663int enc);
3664 This routine implements IDEA in Cipher Block Chaining mode.
3665 Input, which should be a multiple of 8 bytes is encrypted
3666 (or decrypted) to output which will also be a multiple of 8 bytes.
3667 The number of bytes is in length (and from what I've said above,
3668 should be a multiple of 8). If length is not a multiple of 8, bad
3669 things will probably happen. ivec is the initialisation vector.
3670 This function updates iv after each call so that it can be passed to
3671 the next call to idea_cbc_encrypt().
3672
3673void idea_cfb64_encrypt(
3674unsigned char *in,
3675unsigned char *out,
3676long length,
3677des_key_schedule ks,
3678des_cblock *ivec,
3679int *num,
3680int enc);
3681 This is one of the more useful functions in this IDEA library, it
3682 implements CFB mode of IDEA with 64bit feedback.
3683 This allows you to encrypt an arbitrary number of bytes,
3684 you do not require 8 byte padding. Each call to this
3685 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
3686 and num. Num contains 'how far' we are though ivec.
3687 Enc is used to indicate encryption or decryption.
3688 One very important thing to remember is that when decrypting, use
3689 the encryption form of the key.
3690 CFB64 mode operates by using the cipher to
3691 generate a stream of bytes which is used to encrypt the plain text.
3692 The cipher text is then encrypted to generate the next 64 bits to
3693 be xored (incrementally) with the next 64 bits of plain
3694 text. As can be seen from this, to encrypt or decrypt,
3695 the same 'cipher stream' needs to be generated but the way the next
3696 block of data is gathered for encryption is different for
3697 encryption and decryption. What this means is that to encrypt
3698 idea_set_encrypt_key(key,ks);
3699 idea_cfb64_encrypt(...,ks,..,IDEA_ENCRYPT)
3700 do decrypt
3701 idea_set_encrypt_key(key,ks)
3702 idea_cfb64_encrypt(...,ks,...,IDEA_DECRYPT)
3703 Note: The same IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE but different encryption flags.
3704 For idea_cbc or idea_ecb, idea_set_decrypt_key() would need to be
3705 used to generate the IDEA_KEY_SCHEDULE for decryption.
3706 The reason I'm stressing this point is that I just wasted 3 hours
3707 today trying to decrypt using this mode and the decryption form of
3708 the key :-(.
3709
3710void idea_ofb64_encrypt(
3711unsigned char *in,
3712unsigned char *out,
3713long length,
3714des_key_schedule ks,
3715des_cblock *ivec,
3716int *num);
3717 This functions implements OFB mode of IDEA with 64bit feedback.
3718 This allows you to encrypt an arbitrary number of bytes,
3719 you do not require 8 byte padding. Each call to this
3720 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
3721 and num. Num contains 'how far' we are though ivec.
3722 This is in effect a stream cipher, there is no encryption or
3723 decryption mode. The same key and iv should be used to
3724 encrypt and decrypt.
3725
3726For reading passwords, I suggest using des_read_pw_string() from my DES library.
3727To generate a password from a text string, I suggest using MD5 (or MD2) to
3728produce a 16 byte message digest that can then be passed directly to
3729idea_set_encrypt_key().
3730
3731=====
3732For more information about the specific IDEA modes in this library
3733(ecb, cbc, cfb and ofb), read the section entitled 'Modes of DES' from the
3734documentation on my DES library. What is said about DES is directly
3735applicable for IDEA.
3736
3737
3738==== legal.doc ========================================================
3739
3740From eay@mincom.com Thu Jun 27 00:25:45 1996
3741Received: by orb.mincom.oz.au id AA15821
3742 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eay); Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:25:45 +1000
3743Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:25:45 +1000 (EST)
3744From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
3745X-Sender: eay@orb
3746To: Ken Toll <ktoll@ren.digitalage.com>
3747Cc: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>, ssl-talk@netscape.com
3748Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
3749In-Reply-To: <9606261950.ZM28943@ren.digitalage.com>
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3755
3756
3757This is a little off topic but since SSLeay is a free implementation of
3758the SSLv2 protocol, I feel it is worth responding on the topic of if it
3759is actually legal for Americans to use free cryptographic software.
3760
3761On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Ken Toll wrote:
3762> Is the U.S the only country that SSLeay cannot be used commercially
3763> (because of RSAref) or is that going to be an issue with every country
3764> that a client/server application (non-web browser/server) is deployed
3765> and sold?
3766
3767>From what I understand, the software patents that apply to algorithms
3768like RSA and DH only apply in the USA. The IDEA algorithm I believe is
3769patened in europe (USA?), but considing how little it is used by other SSL
3770implementations, it quite easily be left out of the SSLeay build
3771(this can be done with a compile flag).
3772
3773Actually if the RSA patent did apply outside the USA, it could be rather
3774interesting since RSA is not alowed to let RSA toolkits outside of the USA
3775[1], and since these are the only forms that they will alow the algorithm
3776to be used in, it would mean that non-one outside of the USA could produce
3777public key software which would be a very strong statment for
3778international patent law to make :-). This logic is a little flawed but
3779it still points out some of the more interesting permutations of USA
3780patent law and ITAR restrictions.
3781
3782Inside the USA there is also the unresolved issue of RC4/RC2 which were
3783made public on sci.crypt in Sep 1994 (RC4) and Feb 1996 (RC2). I have
3784copies of the origional postings if people are interested. RSA I believe
3785claim that they were 'trade-secrets' and that some-one broke an NDA in
3786revealing them. Other claim they reverse engineered the algorithms from
3787compiled binaries. If the algorithms were reverse engineered, I belive
3788RSA had no legal leg to stand on. If an NDA was broken, I don't know.
3789Regardless, RSA, I belive, is willing to go to court over the issue so
3790licencing is probably the best idea, or at least talk to them.
3791If there are people who actually know more about this, pease let me know, I
3792don't want to vilify or spread miss-information if I can help it.
3793
3794If you are not producing a web browser, it is easy to build SSLeay with
3795RC2/RC4 removed. Since RC4 is the defacto standard cipher in
3796all web software (and it is damn fast) it is more or less required for
3797www use. For non www use of SSL, especially for an application where
3798interoperability with other vendors is not critical just leave it out.
3799
3800Removing IDEA, RC2 and RC4 would only leave DES and Triple DES but
3801they should be ok. Considing that Triple DES can encrypt at rates of
3802410k/sec on a pentium 100, and 940k/sec on a P6/200, this is quite
3803reasonable performance. Single DES clocks in at 1160k/s and 2467k/s
3804respectivly is actually quite fast for those not so paranoid (56 bit key).[1]
3805
3806> Is it possible to get a certificate for commercial use outside of the U.S.?
3807yes.
3808
3809Thawte Consulting issues certificates (they are the people who sell the
3810 Sioux httpd server and are based in South Africa)
3811Verisign will issue certificates for Sioux (sold from South Africa), so this
3812 proves that they will issue certificate for OS use if they are
3813 happy with the quality of the software.
3814
3815(The above mentioned companies just the ones that I know for sure are issuing
3816 certificates outside the USA).
3817
3818There is always the point that if you are using SSL for an intra net,
3819SSLeay provides programs that can be used so you can issue your own
3820certificates. They need polishing but at least it is a good starting point.
3821
3822I am not doing anything outside Australian law by implementing these
3823algorithms (to the best of my knowedge). It is another example of how
3824the world legal system does not cope with the internet very well.
3825
3826I may start making shared libraries available (I have now got DLL's for
3827Windows). This will mean that distributions into the usa could be
3828shipped with a version with a reduced cipher set and the versions outside
3829could use the DLL/shared library with all the ciphers (and without RSAref).
3830
3831This could be completly hidden from the application, so this would not
3832even require a re-linking.
3833
3834This is the reverse of what people were talking about doing to get around
3835USA export regulations :-)
3836
3837eric
3838
3839[1]: The RSAref2.0 tookit is available on at least 3 ftp sites in Europe
3840 and one in South Africa.
3841
3842[2]: Since I always get questions when I post benchmark numbers :-),
3843 DES performace figures are in 1000's of bytes per second in cbc
3844 mode using an 8192 byte buffer. The pentium 100 was running Windows NT
3845 3.51 DLLs and the 686/200 was running NextStep.
3846 I quote pentium 100 benchmarks because it is basically the
3847 'entry level' computer that most people buy for personal use.
3848 Windows 95 is the OS shipping on those boxes, so I'll give
3849 NT numbers (the same Win32 runtime environment). The 686
3850 numbers are present as an indication of where we will be in a
3851 few years.
3852--
3853Eric Young | BOOL is tri-state according to Bill Gates.
3854AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | RTFM Win32 GetMessage().
3855
3856
3857
3858==== lhash.doc ========================================================
3859
3860The LHASH library.
3861
3862I wrote this library in 1991 and have since forgotten why I called it lhash.
3863It implements a hash table from an article I read at the
3864time from 'Communications of the ACM'. What makes this hash
3865table different is that as the table fills, the hash table is
3866increased (or decreased) in size via realloc().
3867When a 'resize' is done, instead of all hashes being redistributed over
3868twice as many 'buckets', one bucket is split. So when an 'expand' is done,
3869there is only a minimal cost to redistribute some values. Subsequent
3870inserts will cause more single 'bucket' redistributions but there will
3871never be a sudden large cost due to redistributing all the 'buckets'.
3872
3873The state for a particular hash table is kept in the LHASH structure.
3874The LHASH structure also records statistics about most aspects of accessing
3875the hash table. This is mostly a legacy of my writing this library for
3876the reasons of implementing what looked like a nice algorithm rather than
3877for a particular software product.
3878
3879Internal stuff you probably don't want to know about.
3880The decision to increase or decrease the hash table size is made depending
3881on the 'load' of the hash table. The load is the number of items in the
3882hash table divided by the size of the hash table. The default values are
3883as follows. If (hash->up_load < load) => expand.
3884if (hash->down_load > load) => contract. The 'up_load' has a default value of
38851 and 'down_load' has a default value of 2. These numbers can be modified
3886by the application by just playing with the 'up_load' and 'down_load'
3887variables. The 'load' is kept in a form which is multiplied by 256. So
3888hash->up_load=8*256; will cause a load of 8 to be set.
3889
3890If you are interested in performance the field to watch is
3891num_comp_calls. The hash library keeps track of the 'hash' value for
3892each item so when a lookup is done, the 'hashes' are compared, if
3893there is a match, then a full compare is done, and
3894hash->num_comp_calls is incremented. If num_comp_calls is not equal
3895to num_delete plus num_retrieve it means that your hash function is
3896generating hashes that are the same for different values. It is
3897probably worth changing your hash function if this is the case because
3898even if your hash table has 10 items in a 'bucked', it can be searched
3899with 10 'unsigned long' compares and 10 linked list traverses. This
3900will be much less expensive that 10 calls to you compare function.
3901
3902LHASH *lh_new(
3903unsigned long (*hash)(),
3904int (*cmp)());
3905 This function is used to create a new LHASH structure. It is passed
3906 function pointers that are used to store and retrieve values passed
3907 into the hash table. The 'hash'
3908 function is a hashing function that will return a hashed value of
3909 it's passed structure. 'cmp' is passed 2 parameters, it returns 0
3910 is they are equal, otherwise, non zero.
3911 If there are any problems (usually malloc failures), NULL is
3912 returned, otherwise a new LHASH structure is returned. The
3913 hash value is normally truncated to a power of 2, so make sure
3914 that your hash function returns well mixed low order bits.
3915
3916void lh_free(
3917LHASH *lh);
3918 This function free()s a LHASH structure. If there is malloced
3919 data in the hash table, it will not be freed. Consider using the
3920 lh_doall function to deallocate any remaining entries in the hash
3921 table.
3922
3923char *lh_insert(
3924LHASH *lh,
3925char *data);
3926 This function inserts the data pointed to by data into the lh hash
3927 table. If there is already and entry in the hash table entry, the
3928 value being replaced is returned. A NULL is returned if the new
3929 entry does not clash with an entry already in the table (the normal
3930 case) or on a malloc() failure (perhaps I should change this....).
3931 The 'char *data' is exactly what is passed to the hash and
3932 comparison functions specified in lh_new().
3933
3934char *lh_delete(
3935LHASH *lh,
3936char *data);
3937 This routine deletes an entry from the hash table. The value being
3938 deleted is returned. NULL is returned if there is no such value in
3939 the hash table.
3940
3941char *lh_retrieve(
3942LHASH *lh,
3943char *data);
3944 If 'data' is in the hash table it is returned, else NULL is
3945 returned. The way these routines would normally be uses is that a
3946 dummy structure would have key fields populated and then
3947 ret=lh_retrieve(hash,&dummy);. Ret would now be a pointer to a fully
3948 populated structure.
3949
3950void lh_doall(
3951LHASH *lh,
3952void (*func)(char *a));
3953 This function will, for every entry in the hash table, call function
3954 'func' with the data item as parameters.
3955 This function can be quite useful when used as follows.
3956 void cleanup(STUFF *a)
3957 { STUFF_free(a); }
3958 lh_doall(hash,cleanup);
3959 lh_free(hash);
3960 This can be used to free all the entries, lh_free() then
3961 cleans up the 'buckets' that point to nothing. Be careful
3962 when doing this. If you delete entries from the hash table,
3963 in the call back function, the table may decrease in size,
3964 moving item that you are
3965 currently on down lower in the hash table. This could cause
3966 some entries to be skipped. The best solution to this problem
3967 is to set lh->down_load=0 before you start. This will stop
3968 the hash table ever being decreased in size.
3969
3970void lh_doall_arg(
3971LHASH *lh;
3972void(*func)(char *a,char *arg));
3973char *arg;
3974 This function is the same as lh_doall except that the function
3975 called will be passed 'arg' as the second argument.
3976
3977unsigned long lh_strhash(
3978char *c);
3979 This function is a demo string hashing function. Since the LHASH
3980 routines would normally be passed structures, this routine would
3981 not normally be passed to lh_new(), rather it would be used in the
3982 function passed to lh_new().
3983
3984The next three routines print out various statistics about the state of the
3985passed hash table. These numbers are all kept in the lhash structure.
3986
3987void lh_stats(
3988LHASH *lh,
3989FILE *out);
3990 This function prints out statistics on the size of the hash table,
3991 how many entries are in it, and the number and result of calls to
3992 the routines in this library.
3993
3994void lh_node_stats(
3995LHASH *lh,
3996FILE *out);
3997 For each 'bucket' in the hash table, the number of entries is
3998 printed.
3999
4000void lh_node_usage_stats(
4001LHASH *lh,
4002FILE *out);
4003 This function prints out a short summary of the state of the hash
4004 table. It prints what I call the 'load' and the 'actual load'.
4005 The load is the average number of data items per 'bucket' in the
4006 hash table. The 'actual load' is the average number of items per
4007 'bucket', but only for buckets which contain entries. So the
4008 'actual load' is the average number of searches that will need to
4009 find an item in the hash table, while the 'load' is the average number
4010 that will be done to record a miss.
4011
4012==== md2.doc ========================================================
4013
4014The MD2 library.
4015MD2 is a message digest algorithm that can be used to condense an arbitrary
4016length message down to a 16 byte hash. The functions all need to be passed
4017a MD2_CTX which is used to hold the MD2 context during multiple MD2_Update()
4018function calls. The normal method of use for this library is as follows
4019
4020MD2_Init(...);
4021MD2_Update(...);
4022...
4023MD2_Update(...);
4024MD2_Final(...);
4025
4026This library requires the inclusion of 'md2.h'.
4027
4028The main negative about MD2 is that it is slow, especially when compared
4029to MD5.
4030
4031The functions are as follows:
4032
4033void MD2_Init(
4034MD2_CTX *c);
4035 This function needs to be called to initiate a MD2_CTX structure for
4036 use.
4037
4038void MD2_Update(
4039MD2_CTX *c;
4040unsigned char *data;
4041unsigned long len);
4042 This updates the message digest context being generated with 'len'
4043 bytes from the 'data' pointer. The number of bytes can be any
4044 length.
4045
4046void MD2_Final(
4047unsigned char *md;
4048MD2_CTX *c;
4049 This function is called when a message digest of the data digested
4050 with MD2_Update() is wanted. The message digest is put in the 'md'
4051 array and is MD2_DIGEST_LENGTH (16) bytes long.
4052
4053unsigned char *MD2(
4054unsigned long n;
4055unsigned char *d;
4056unsigned char *md;
4057 This function performs a MD2_Init(), followed by a MD2_Update()
4058 followed by a MD2_Final() (using a local MD2_CTX).
4059 The resulting digest is put into 'md' if it is not NULL.
4060 Regardless of the value of 'md', the message
4061 digest is returned from the function. If 'md' was NULL, the message
4062 digest returned is being stored in a static structure.
4063
4064==== md5.doc ========================================================
4065
4066The MD5 library.
4067MD5 is a message digest algorithm that can be used to condense an arbitrary
4068length message down to a 16 byte hash. The functions all need to be passed
4069a MD5_CTX which is used to hold the MD5 context during multiple MD5_Update()
4070function calls. This library also contains random number routines that are
4071based on MD5
4072
4073The normal method of use for this library is as follows
4074
4075MD5_Init(...);
4076MD5_Update(...);
4077...
4078MD5_Update(...);
4079MD5_Final(...);
4080
4081This library requires the inclusion of 'md5.h'.
4082
4083The functions are as follows:
4084
4085void MD5_Init(
4086MD5_CTX *c);
4087 This function needs to be called to initiate a MD5_CTX structure for
4088 use.
4089
4090void MD5_Update(
4091MD5_CTX *c;
4092unsigned char *data;
4093unsigned long len);
4094 This updates the message digest context being generated with 'len'
4095 bytes from the 'data' pointer. The number of bytes can be any
4096 length.
4097
4098void MD5_Final(
4099unsigned char *md;
4100MD5_CTX *c;
4101 This function is called when a message digest of the data digested
4102 with MD5_Update() is wanted. The message digest is put in the 'md'
4103 array and is MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH (16) bytes long.
4104
4105unsigned char *MD5(
4106unsigned char *d;
4107unsigned long n;
4108unsigned char *md;
4109 This function performs a MD5_Init(), followed by a MD5_Update()
4110 followed by a MD5_Final() (using a local MD5_CTX).
4111 The resulting digest is put into 'md' if it is not NULL.
4112 Regardless of the value of 'md', the message
4113 digest is returned from the function. If 'md' was NULL, the message
4114 digest returned is being stored in a static structure.
4115
4116
4117==== memory.doc ========================================================
4118
4119In the interests of debugging SSLeay, there is an option to compile
4120using some simple memory leak checking.
4121
4122All malloc(), free() and realloc() calls in SSLeay now go via
4123Malloc(), Free() and Realloc() (except those in crypto/lhash).
4124
4125If CRYPTO_MDEBUG is defined, these calls are #defined to
4126CRYPTO_malloc(), CRYPTO_free() and CRYPTO_realloc().
4127If it is not defined, they are #defined to malloc(), free() and realloc().
4128
4129the CRYPTO_malloc() routines by default just call the underlying library
4130functons.
4131
4132If CRYPTO_mem_ctrl(CRYPTO_MEM_CHECK_ON) is called, memory leak detection is
4133turned on. CRYPTO_mem_ctrl(CRYPTO_MEM_CHECK_OFF) turns it off.
4134
4135When turned on, each Malloc() or Realloc() call is recored along with the file
4136and line number from where the call was made. (This is done using the
4137lhash library which always uses normal system malloc(3) routines).
4138
4139void CRYPTO_mem_leaks(BIO *b);
4140void CRYPTO_mem_leaks_fp(FILE *fp);
4141These both print out the list of memory that has not been free()ed.
4142This will probably be rather hard to read, but if you look for the 'top level'
4143structure allocation, this will often give an idea as to what is not being
4144free()ed. I don't expect people to use this stuff normally.
4145
4146==== ca.1 ========================================================
4147
4148From eay@orb.mincom.oz.au Thu Dec 28 23:56:45 1995
4149Received: by orb.mincom.oz.au id AA07374
4150 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eay); Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:56:45 +1000
4151Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:56:45 +1000 (EST)
4152From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
4153X-Sender: eay@orb
4154To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
4155Cc: ssleay@mincom.oz.au
4156Subject: Re: 'ca'
4157In-Reply-To: <199512230440.UAA23410@infinity.c2.org>
4158Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951228133525.7269A-100000@orb>
4159Mime-Version: 1.0
4160Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
4161Status: RO
4162X-Status:
4163
4164On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, sameer wrote:
4165> I could use documentation on 'ca'. Thanks.
4166
4167Very quickly.
4168The ca program uses the ssleay.conf file for most of its configuration
4169
4170./ca -help
4171
4172 -verbose - Talk alot while doing things
4173 -config file - A config file. If you don't want to use the
4174 default config file
4175 -name arg - The particular CA definition to use
4176 In the config file, the section to use for parameters. This lets
4177 multiple setups to be contained in the one file. By default, the
4178 default_ca variable is looked up in the [ ca ] section. So in the
4179 shipped ssleay.conf, the CA definition used is CA_default. It could be
4180 any other name.
4181 -gencrl days - Generate a new CRL, days is when the next CRL is due
4182 This will generate a new certificate revocion list.
4183 -days arg - number of days to certify the certificate for
4184 When certifiying certificates, this is the number of days to use.
4185 -md arg - md to use, one of md2, md5, sha or sha1
4186 -policy arg - The CA 'policy' to support
4187 I'll describe this later, but there are 2 policies definied in the
4188 shipped ssleay.conf
4189 -keyfile arg - PEM RSA private key file
4190 -key arg - key to decode the RSA private key if it is encrypted
4191 since we need to keep the CA's RSA key encrypted
4192 -cert - The CA certificate
4193 -in file - The input PEM encoded certificate request(s)
4194 -out file - Where to put the output file(s)
4195 -outdir dir - Where to put output certificates
4196 The -out options concatinates all the output certificied
4197 certificates to one file, -outdir puts them in a directory,
4198 named by serial number.
4199 -infiles .... - The last argument, requests to process
4200 The certificate requests to process, -in is the same.
4201
4202Just about all the above have default values defined in ssleay.conf.
4203
4204The key variables in ssleay.conf are (for the pariticular '-name' being
4205used, in the default, it is CA_default).
4206
4207dir is where all the CA database stuff is kept.
4208certs is where all the previously issued certificates are kept.
4209The database is a simple text database containing the following tab separated
4210fields.
4211status: a value of 'R' - revoked, 'E' -expired or 'V' valid.
4212issued date: When the certificate was certified.
4213revoked date: When it was revoked, blank if not revoked.
4214serial number: The certificate serial number.
4215certificate: Where the certificate is located.
4216CN: The name of the certificate.
4217
4218The demo file has quite a few made up values it it. The last 2 were
4219added by the ca program and are acurate.
4220The CA program does not update the 'certificate' file correctly right now.
4221The serial field should be unique as should the CN/status combination.
4222The ca program checks these at startup. What still needs to be
4223wrtten is a program to 'regenerate' the data base file from the issued
4224certificate list (and a CRL list).
4225
4226Back to the CA_default variables.
4227
4228Most of the variables are commented.
4229
4230policy is the default policy.
4231
4232Ok for policies, they define the order and which fields must be present
4233in the certificate request and what gets filled in.
4234
4235So a value of
4236countryName = match
4237means that the country name must match the CA certificate.
4238organizationalUnitName = optional
4239The org.Unit,Name does not have to be present and
4240commonName = supplied
4241commonName must be supplied in the certificate request.
4242
4243For the 'policy_match' polocy, the order of the attributes in the
4244generated certiticate would be
4245countryName
4246stateOrProvinceName
4247organizationName
4248organizationalUnitName
4249commonName
4250emailAddress
4251
4252Have a play, it sort of makes sense. If you think about how the persona
4253requests operate, it is similar to the 'policy_match' policy and the
4254'policy_anything' is similar to what versign is doing.
4255
4256I hope this helps a bit. Some backend scripts are definitly needed to
4257update the database and to make certificate revocion easy. All
4258certificates issued should also be kept forever (or until they expire?)
4259
4260hope this helps
4261eric (who has to run off an buy some cheap knee pads for the caving in 4
4262days time :-)
4263
4264--
4265Eric Young | Signature removed since it was generating
4266AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | more followups than the message contents :-)
4267
4268
4269==== ms3-ca.doc ========================================================
4270
4271Date: Mon, 9 Jun 97 08:00:33 +0200
4272From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif)
4273Subject: ms3-ca.doc
4274Organization: TU Ilmenau, Fak. IA, FG Telematik
4275Content-Length: 14575
4276Status: RO
4277X-Status:
4278
4279Loading client certs into MSIE 3.01
4280===================================
4281
4282This document conatains all the information necessary to succesfully set up
4283some scripts to issue client certs to Microsoft Internet Explorer. It
4284includes the required knowledge about the model MSIE uses for client
4285certification and includes complete sample scripts ready to play with. The
4286scripts were tested against a modified ca program of SSLeay 0.6.6 and should
4287work with the regular ca program that comes with version 0.8.0. I haven't
4288tested against MSIE 4.0
4289
4290You can use the information contained in this document in either way you
4291want. However if you feel it saved you a lot of time I ask you to be as fair
4292as to mention my name: Holger Reif <reif@prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de>.
4293
42941.) The model used by MSIE
4295--------------------------
4296
4297The Internet Explorer doesn't come with a embedded engine for installing
4298client certs like Netscape's Navigator. It rather uses the CryptoAPI (CAPI)
4299defined by Microsoft. CAPI comes with WindowsNT 4.0 or is installed together
4300with Internet Explorer since 3.01. The advantage of this approach is a higher
4301flexibility because the certificates in the (per user) system open
4302certificate store may be used by other applications as well. The drawback
4303however is that you need to do a bit more work to get a client cert issued.
4304
4305CAPI defines functions which will handle basic cryptographic work, eg.
4306generating keys, encrypting some data, signing text or building a certificate
4307request. The procedure is as follows: A CAPI function generates you a key
4308pair and saves it into the certificate store. After that one builds a
4309Distinguished Name. Together with that key pair another CAPI function forms a
4310PKCS#10 request which you somehow need to submit to a CA. Finally the issued
4311cert is given to a yet another CAPI function which saves it into the
4312certificate store.
4313
4314The certificate store with the user's keys and certs is in the registry. You
4315will find it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Cryptography/ (I
4316leave it to you as a little exercise to figure out what all the entries mean
4317;-). Note that the keys are protected only with the user's usual Windows
4318login password.
4319
43202.) The practical usage
4321-----------------------
4322
4323Unfortunatly since CAPI is a system API you can't access its functions from
4324HTML code directly. For this purpose Microsoft provides a wrapper called
4325certenr3.dll. This DLL accesses the CAPI functions and provides an interface
4326usable from Visual Basic Script. One needs to install that library on the
4327computer which wants to have client cert. The easiest way is to load it as an
4328ActiveX control (certenr3.dll is properly authenticode signed by MS ;-). If
4329you have ever enrolled e cert request at a CA you will have installed it.
4330
4331At time of writing certenr3.dll is contained in
4332http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/prog/security/csa/certenr3.exe. It comes
4333with an README file which explains the available functions. It is labeled
4334beta but every CA seems to use it anyway. The license.txt allows you the
4335usage for your own purposes (as far as I understood) and a somehow limited
4336distribution.
4337
4338The two functions of main interest are GenerateKeyPair and AcceptCredentials.
4339For complete explanation of all possible parameters see the README file. Here
4340are only minimal required parameters and their values.
4341
4342GenerateKeyPair(sessionID, FASLE, szName, 0, "ClientAuth", TRUE, FALSE, 1)
4343- sessionID is a (locally to that computer) unique string to correlate the
4344generated key pair with a cert installed later.
4345- szName is the DN of the form "C=DE; S=Thueringen; L=Ilmenau; CN=Holger
4346Reif; 1.2.840.113549.1.9.1=reif@prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de". Note that S is the
4347abreviation for StateOrProvince. The recognized abreviation include CN, O, C,
4348OU, G, I, L, S, T. If the abreviation is unknown (eg. for PKCS#9 email addr)
4349you need to use the full object identifier. The starting point for searching
4350them could be crypto/objects.h since all OIDs know to SSLeay are listed
4351there.
4352- note: the possible ninth parameter which should give a default name to the
4353certificate storage location doesn't seem to work. Changes to the constant
4354values in the call above doesn't seem to make sense. You can't generate
4355PKCS#10 extensions with that function.
4356
4357The result of GenerateKeyPair is the base64 encoded PKCS#10 request. However
4358it has a little strange format that SSLeay doesn't accept. (BTW I feel the
4359decision of rejecting that format as standard conforming.) It looks like
4360follows:
4361 1st line with 76 chars
4362 2nd line with 76 chars
4363 ...
4364 (n-2)th line with 76 chars
4365 (n-1)th line contains a multiple of 4 chars less then 76 (possible
4366empty)
4367 (n)th line has zero or 4 chars (then with 1 or 2 equal signs - the
4368 original text's lenght wasn'T a multiple of 3)
4369 The line separator has two chars: 0x0d 0x0a
4370
4371AcceptCredentials(sessionID, credentials, 0, FALSE)
4372- sessionID needs to be the same as while generating the key pair
4373- credentials is the base64 encoded PKCS#7 object containing the cert.
4374
4375CRL's and CA certs are not required simply just the client cert. (It seems to
4376me that both are not even checked somehow.) The only format of the base64
4377encoded object I succesfully used was all characters in a very long string
4378without line feeds or carriage returns. (Hey, it doesn't matter, only a
4379computer reads it!)
4380
4381The result should be S_OK. For error handling see the example that comes with
4382certenr3.dll.
4383
4384A note about ASN.1 character encodings. certenr3.dll seems to know only about
43852 of them: UniversalString and PrintableString. First it is definitely wrong
4386for an email address which is IA5STRING (checked by ssleay's ca). Second
4387unfortunately MSIE (at least until version 3.02) can't handle UniversalString
4388correctly - they just blow up you cert store! Therefore ssleay's ca (starting
4389from version 0.8.0) tries to convert the encodings automatically to IA5STRING
4390or TeletexString. The beef is it will work only for the latin-1 (western)
4391charset. Microsoft still has to do abit of homework...
4392
43933.) An example
4394--------------
4395
4396At least you need two steps: generating the key & request and then installing
4397the certificate. A real world CA would have some more steps involved, eg.
4398accepting some license. Note that both scripts shown below are just
4399experimental state without any warrenty!
4400
4401First how to generate a request. Note that we can't use a static page because
4402of the sessionID. I generate it from system time plus pid and hope it is
4403unique enough. Your are free to feed it through md5 to get more impressive
4404ID's ;-) Then the intended text is read in with sed which inserts the
4405sessionID.
4406
4407-----BEGIN ms-enroll.cgi-----
4408#!/bin/sh
4409SESSION_ID=`date '+%y%m%d%H%M%S'`$$
4410echo Content-type: text/html
4411echo
4412sed s/template_for_sessId/$SESSION_ID/ <<EOF
4413<HTML><HEAD>
4414<TITLE>Certificate Enrollment Test Page</TITLE>
4415</HEAD><BODY>
4416
4417<OBJECT
4418 classid="clsid:33BEC9E0-F78F-11cf-B782-00C04FD7BF43"
4419 codebase=certenr3.dll
4420 id=certHelper
4421 >
4422</OBJECT>
4423
4424<CENTER>
4425<H2>enrollment for a personal cert</H2>
4426<BR><HR WIDTH=50%><BR><P>
4427<FORM NAME="MSIE_Enrollment" ACTION="ms-gencert.cgi" ENCTYPE=x-www-form-
4428encoded METHOD=POST>
4429<TABLE>
4430 <TR><TD>Country</TD><TD><INPUT NAME="Country" VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4431 <TR><TD>State</TD><TD><INPUT NAME="StateOrProvince" VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4432 <TR><TD>Location</TD><TD><INPUT NAME="Location" VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4433 <TR><TD>Organization</TD><TD><INPUT NAME="Organization"
4434VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4435 <TR><TD>Organizational Unit</TD>
4436 <TD><INPUT NAME="OrganizationalUnit" VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4437 <TR><TD>Name</TD><TD><INPUT NAME="CommonName" VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4438 <TR><TD>eMail Address</TD>
4439 <TD><INPUT NAME="EmailAddress" VALUE=""></TD></TR>
4440 <TR><TD></TD>
4441 <TD><INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="submit" VALUE="Beantragen"></TD></TR>
4442</TABLE>
4443 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="SessionId" VALUE="template_for_sessId">
4444 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Request" VALUE="">
4445</FORM>
4446<BR><HR WIDTH=50%><BR><P>
4447</CENTER>
4448
4449<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBS>
4450 Dim DN
4451
4452 Sub Submit_OnClick
4453 Dim TheForm
4454 Set TheForm = Document.MSIE_Enrollment
4455 sessionId = TheForm.SessionId.value
4456 reqHardware = FALSE
4457 C = TheForm.Country.value
4458 SP = TheForm.StateOrProvince.value
4459 L = TheForm.Location.value
4460 O = TheForm.Organization.value
4461 OU = TheForm.OrganizationalUnit.value
4462 CN = TheForm.CommonName.value
4463 Email = TheForm.EmailAddress.value
4464 szPurpose = "ClientAuth"
4465 doAcceptanceUINow = FALSE
4466 doOnline = TRUE
4467
4468 DN = ""
4469
4470 Call Add_RDN("C", C)
4471 Call Add_RDN("S", SP)
4472 Call Add_RDN("L", L)
4473 Call Add_RDN("O", O)
4474 Call Add_RDN("OU", OU)
4475 Call Add_RDN("CN", CN)
4476 Call Add_RDN("1.2.840.113549.1.9.1", Email)
4477 ' rsadsi
4478 ' pkcs
4479 ' pkcs9
4480 ' eMailAddress
4481 On Error Resume Next
4482 sz10 = certHelper.GenerateKeyPair(sessionId, _
4483 FALSE, DN, 0, ClientAuth, FASLE, TRUE, 1)_
4484 theError = Err.Number
4485 On Error Goto 0
4486 if (sz10 = Empty OR theError <> 0) Then
4487 sz = "The error '" & Hex(theError) & "' occurred." & chr(13) & _
4488 chr(10) & "Your credentials could not be generated."
4489 result = MsgBox(sz, 0, "Credentials Enrollment")
4490 Exit Sub
4491 else
4492 TheForm.Request.value = sz10
4493 TheForm.Submit
4494 end if
4495 End Sub
4496
4497 Sub Add_RDN(sn, value)
4498 if (value <> "") then
4499 if (DN <> "") then
4500 DN = DN & "; "
4501 end if
4502 DN = DN & sn & "=" & value
4503 end if
4504 End Sub
4505</SCRIPT>
4506</BODY>
4507</HTML>
4508EOF
4509-----END ms-enroll.cgi-----
4510
4511Second, how to extract the request and feed the certificate back? We need to
4512"normalize" the base64 encoding of the PKCS#10 format which means
4513regenerating the lines and wrapping with BEGIN and END line. This is done by
4514gawk. The request is taken by ca the normal way. Then the cert needs to be
4515packed into a PKCS#7 structure (note: the use of a CRL is necessary for
4516crl2pkcs7 as of version 0.6.6. Starting with 0.8.0 it it might probably be
4517ommited). Finally we need to format the PKCS#7 object and generate the HTML
4518text. I use two templates to have a clearer script.
4519
45201st note: postit2 is slightly modified from a program I found at ncsa's ftp
4521site. Grab it from http://www.easterngraphics.com/certs/IX9704/postit2.c. You
4522need utils.c from there too.
4523
45242nd note: I'm note quite sure wether the gawk script really handles all
4525possible inputs for the request right! Today I don't use this construction
4526anymore myself.
4527
45283d note: the cert must be of version 3! This could be done with the nsComment
4529line in ssleay.cnf...
4530
4531------BEGIN ms-gencert.cgi-----
4532#!/bin/sh
4533FILE="/tmp/"`date '+%y%m%d%H%M%S'-`$$
4534rm -f "$FILE".*
4535
4536HOME=`pwd`; export HOME # as ssleay.cnf insists on having such an env var
4537cd /usr/local/ssl #where demoCA (as named in ssleay.conf) is located
4538
4539postit2 -s " " -i 0x0d > "$FILE".inp # process the FORM vars
4540
4541SESSION_ID=`gawk '$1 == "SessionId" { print $2; exit }' "$FILE".inp`
4542
4543gawk \
4544 'BEGIN { \
4545 OFS = ""; \
4546 print "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----"; \
4547 req_seen=0 \
4548 } \
4549 $1 == "Request" { \
4550 req_seen=1; \
4551 if (length($2) == 72) print($2); \
4552 lastline=$2; \
4553 next; \
4554 } \
4555 { \
4556 if (req_seen == 1) { \
4557 if (length($1) >= 72) print($1); \
4558 else if (length(lastline) < 72) { \
4559 req_seen=0; \
4560 print (lastline,$1); \
4561 } \
4562 lastline=$1; \
4563 } \
4564 } \
4565 END { \
4566 print "-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----"; \
4567 }' > "$FILE".pem < "$FILE".inp
4568
4569ssleay ca -batch -in "$FILE".pem -key passwd -out "$FILE".out
4570ssleay crl2pkcs7 -certfile "$FILE".out -out "$FILE".pkcs7 -in demoCA/crl.pem
4571
4572sed s/template_for_sessId/$SESSION_ID/ <ms-enroll2a.html >"$FILE".cert
4573/usr/local/bin/gawk \
4574 'BEGIN { \
4575 OFS = ""; \
4576 dq = sprintf("%c",34); \
4577 } \
4578 $0 ~ "PKCS7" { next; } \
4579 { \
4580 print dq$0dq" & _"; \
4581 }' <"$FILE".pkcs7 >> "$FILE".cert
4582cat ms-enroll2b.html >>"$FILE".cert
4583
4584echo Content-type: text/html
4585echo Content-length: `wc -c "$FILE".cert`
4586echo
4587cat "$FILE".cert
4588rm -f "$FILE".*
4589-----END ms-gencert.cgi-----
4590
4591----BEGIN ms-enroll2a.html----
4592<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Certificate Acceptance Test Page</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
4593
4594<OBJECT
4595 classid="clsid:33BEC9E0-F78F-11cf-B782-00C04FD7BF43"
4596 codebase=certenr3.dll
4597 id=certHelper
4598 >
4599</OBJECT>
4600
4601<CENTER>
4602<H2>Your personal certificate</H2>
4603<BR><HR WIDTH=50%><BR><P>
4604Press the button!
4605<P><INPUT TYPE=BUTTON VALUE="Nimm mich!" NAME="InstallCert">
4606</CENTER>
4607<BR><HR WIDTH=50%><BR>
4608
4609<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBS>
4610 Sub InstallCert_OnClick
4611
4612 sessionId = "template_for_sessId"
4613credentials = "" & _
4614----END ms-enroll2a.html----
4615
4616----BEGIN ms-enroll2b.html----
4617""
4618 On Error Resume Next
4619 result = certHelper.AcceptCredentials(sessionId, credentials, 0,
4620FALSE)
4621 if (IsEmpty(result)) Then
4622 sz = "The error '" & Err.Number & "' occurred." & chr(13) &
4623chr(10) & "This Digital ID could not be registered."
4624 msgOut = MsgBox(sz, 0, "Credentials Registration Error")
4625 navigate "error.html"
4626 else
4627 sz = "Digital ID successfully registered."
4628 msgOut = MsgBox(sz, 0, "Credentials Registration")
4629 navigate "success.html"
4630 end if
4631 Exit Sub
4632 End Sub
4633</SCRIPT>
4634</BODY>
4635</HTML>
4636----END ms-enroll2b.html----
4637
46384.) What do do with the cert?
4639-----------------------------
4640
4641The cert is visible (without restarting MSIE) under the following menu:
4642View->Options->Security->Personal certs. You can examine it's contents at
4643least partially.
4644
4645To use it for client authentication you need to use SSL3.0 (fortunately
4646SSLeay supports it with 0.8.0). Furthermore MSIE is told to only supports a
4647kind of automatic selection of certs (I personally wasn't able to test it
4648myself). But there is a requirement that the issuer of the server cert and
4649the issuer of the client cert needs to be the same (according to a developer
4650from MS). Which means: you need may more then one cert to talk to all
4651servers...
4652
4653I'm sure we will get a bit more experience after ApacheSSL is available for
4654SSLeay 0.8.8.
4655
4656
4657I hope you enjoyed reading and that in future questions on this topic will
4658rarely appear on ssl-users@moncom.com ;-)
4659
4660Ilmenau, 9th of June 1997
4661Holger Reif <reif@prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de>
4662--
4663read you later - Holger Reif
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4666Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE Alt wie ein Baum werden, um ueber
4667http://Remus.PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE/Reif/ alle 7 Bruecken gehen zu koennen
4668
4669
4670==== ns-ca.doc ========================================================
4671
4672The following documentation was supplied by Jeff Barber, who provided the
4673patch to the CA program to add this functionality.
4674
4675eric
4676--
4677Jeff Barber Email: jeffb@issl.atl.hp.com
4678
4679Hewlett Packard Phone: (404) 648-9503
4680Internet and System Security Lab Fax: (404) 648-9516
4681
4682 oo
4683---------------------cut /\ here for ns-ca.doc ------------------------------
4684
4685This document briefly describes how to use SSLeay to implement a
4686certificate authority capable of dynamically serving up client
4687certificates for version 3.0 beta 5 (and presumably later) versions of
4688the Netscape Navigator. Before describing how this is done, it's
4689important to understand a little about how the browser implements its
4690client certificate support. This is documented in some detail in the
4691URLs based at <URL:http://home.netscape.com/eng/security/certs.html>.
4692Here's a brief overview:
4693
4694- The Navigator supports a new HTML tag "KEYGEN" which will cause
4695 the browser to generate an RSA key pair when you submit a form
4696 containing the tag. The public key, along with an optional
4697 challenge (supposedly provided for use in certificate revocation
4698 but I don't use it) is signed, DER-encoded, base-64 encoded
4699 and sent to the web server as the value of the variable
4700 whose NAME is provided in the KEYGEN tag. The private key is
4701 stored by the browser in a local key database.
4702
4703 This "Signed Public Key And Challenge" (SPKAC) arrives formatted
4704 into 64 character lines (which are of course URL-encoded when
4705 sent via HTTP -- i.e. spaces, newlines and most punctuatation are
4706 encoded as "%HH" where HH is the hex equivalent of the ASCII code).
4707 Note that the SPKAC does not contain the other usual attributes
4708 of a certificate request, especially the subject name fields.
4709 These must be otherwise encoded in the form for submission along
4710 with the SPKAC.
4711
4712- Either immediately (in response to this form submission), or at
4713 some later date (a real CA will probably verify your identity in
4714 some way before issuing the certificate), a web server can send a
4715 certificate based on the public key and other attributes back to
4716 the browser by encoding it in DER (the binary form) and sending it
4717 to the browser as MIME type:
4718 "Content-type: application/x-x509-user-cert"
4719
4720 The browser uses the public key encoded in the certificate to
4721 associate the certificate with the appropriate private key in
4722 its local key database. Now, the certificate is "installed".
4723
4724- When a server wants to require authentication based on client
4725 certificates, it uses the right signals via the SSL protocol to
4726 trigger the Navigator to ask you which certificate you want to
4727 send. Whether the certificate is accepted is dependent on CA
4728 certificates and so forth installed in the server and is beyond
4729 the scope of this document.
4730
4731
4732Now, here's how the SSLeay package can be used to provide client
4733certficates:
4734
4735- You prepare a file for input to the SSLeay ca application.
4736 The file contains a number of "name = value" pairs that identify
4737 the subject. The names here are the same subject name component
4738 identifiers used in the CA section of the lib/ssleay.conf file,
4739 such as "emailAddress", "commonName" "organizationName" and so
4740 forth. Both the long version and the short version (e.g. "Email",
4741 "CN", "O") can be used.
4742
4743 One more name is supported: this one is "SPKAC". Its value
4744 is simply the value of the base-64 encoded SPKAC sent by the
4745 browser (with all the newlines and other space charaters
4746 removed -- and newline escapes are NOT supported).
4747
4748 [ As of SSLeay 0.6.4, multiple lines are supported.
4749 Put a \ at the end of each line and it will be joined with the
4750 previous line with the '\n' removed - eay ]
4751
4752 Here's a sample input file:
4753
4754C = US
4755SP = Georgia
4756O = Some Organization, Inc.
4757OU = Netscape Compatibility Group
4758CN = John X. Doe
4759Email = jxdoe@someorg.com
4760SPKAC = MIG0MGAwXDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAANLADBIAkEAwmk6FMJ4uAVIYbcvIOx5+bDGTfvL8X5gE+R67ccMk6rCSGbVQz2cetyQtnI+VIs0NwdD6wjuSuVtVFbLoHonowIDAQABFgAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEEBQADQQBFZDUWFl6BJdomtN1Bi53mwijy1rRgJ4YirF15yBEDM3DjAQkKXHYOIX+qpz4KXKnl6EYxTnGSFL5wWt8X2iyx
4761
4762- You execute the ca command (either from a CGI program run out of
4763 the web server, or as a later manual task) giving it the above
4764 file as input. For example, if the file were named /tmp/cert.req,
4765 you'd run:
4766 $SSLDIR/bin/ca -spkac /tmp/cert.req -out /tmp/cert
4767
4768 The output is in DER format (binary) if a -out argument is
4769 provided, as above; otherwise, it's in the PEM format (base-64
4770 encoded DER). Also, the "-batch" switch is implied by the
4771 "-spkac" so you don't get asked whether to complete the signing
4772 (probably it shouldn't work this way but I was only interested
4773 in hacking together an online CA that could be used for issuing
4774 test certificates).
4775
4776 The "-spkac" capability doesn't support multiple files (I think).
4777
4778 Any CHALLENGE provided in the SPKAC is simply ignored.
4779
4780 The interactions between the identification fields you provide
4781 and those identified in your lib/ssleay.conf are the same as if
4782 you did an ordinary "ca -in infile -out outfile" -- that is, if
4783 something is marked as required in the ssleay.conf file and it
4784 isn't found in the -spkac file, the certificate won't be issued.
4785
4786- Now, you pick up the output from /tmp/cert and pass it back to
4787 the Navigator prepending the Content-type string described earlier.
4788
4789- In order to run the ca command out of a CGI program, you must
4790 provide a password to decrypt the CA's private key. You can
4791 do this by using "echo MyKeyPassword | $SSLDIR/bin/ca ..."
4792 I think there's a way to not encrypt the key file in the first
4793 place, but I didn't see how to do that, so I made a small change
4794 to the library that allows the password to be accepted from a pipe.
4795 Either way is UTTERLY INSECURE and a real CA would never do that.
4796
4797 [ You can use the 'ssleay rsa' command to remove the password
4798 from the private key, or you can use the '-key' option to the
4799 ca command to specify the decryption key on the command line
4800 or use the -nodes option when generating the key.
4801 ca will try to clear the command line version of the password
4802 but for quite a few operating systems, this is not possible.
4803 - eric ]
4804
4805So, what do you have to do to make use of this stuff to create an online
4806demo CA capability with SSLeay?
4807
48081 Create an HTML form for your users. The form should contain
4809 fields for all of the required or optional fields in ssleay.conf.
4810 The form must contain a KEYGEN tag somewhere with at least a NAME
4811 attribute.
4812
48132 Create a CGI program to process the form input submitted by the
4814 browser. The CGI program must URL-decode the variables and create
4815 the file described above, containing subject identification info
4816 as well as the SPKAC block. It should then run the the ca program
4817 with the -spkac option. If it works (check the exit status),
4818 return the new certificate with the appropriate MIME type. If not,
4819 return the output of the ca command with MIME type "text/plain".
4820
48213 Set up your web server to accept connections signed by your demo
4822 CA. This probably involves obtaining the PEM-encoded CA certificate
4823 (ordinarily in $SSLDIR/CA/cacert.pem) and installing it into a
4824 server database. See your server manual for instructions.
4825
4826
4827==== obj.doc ========================================================
4828
4829The Object library.
4830
4831As part of my Crypto library, I found I required a method of identifying various
4832objects. These objects normally had 3 different values associated with
4833them, a short text name, a long (or lower case) text name, and an
4834ASN.1 Object Identifier (which is a sequence of numbers).
4835This library contains a static list of objects and functions to lookup
4836according to one type and to return the other types.
4837
4838To use these routines, 'Object.h' needs to be included.
4839
4840For each supported object, #define entries are defined as follows
4841#define SN_Algorithm "Algorithm"
4842#define LN_algorithm "algorithm"
4843#define NID_algorithm 38
4844#define OBJ_algorithm 1L,3L,14L,3L,2L
4845
4846SN_ stands for short name.
4847LN_ stands for either long name or lowercase name.
4848NID_ stands for Numeric ID. I each object has a unique NID and this
4849 should be used internally to identify objects.
4850OBJ_ stands for ASN.1 Object Identifier or ASN1_OBJECT as defined in the
4851 ASN1 routines. These values are used in ASN1 encoding.
4852
4853The following functions are to be used to return pointers into a static
4854definition of these types. What this means is "don't try to free() any
4855pointers returned from these functions.
4856
4857ASN1_OBJECT *OBJ_nid2obj(
4858int n);
4859 Return the ASN1_OBJECT that corresponds to a NID of n.
4860
4861char *OBJ_nid2ln(
4862int n);
4863 Return the long/lower case name of the object represented by the
4864 NID of n.
4865
4866char *OBJ_nid2sn(
4867int n);
4868 Return the short name for the object represented by the NID of n.
4869
4870ASN1_OBJECT *OBJ_dup(
4871ASN1_OBJECT *o);
4872 Duplicate and return a new ASN1_OBJECT that is the same as the
4873 passed parameter.
4874
4875int OBJ_obj2nid(
4876ASN1_OBJECT *o);
4877 Given ASN1_OBJECT o, return the NID that corresponds.
4878
4879int OBJ_ln2nid(
4880char *s);
4881 Given the long/lower case name 's', return the NID of the object.
4882
4883int OBJ_sn2nid(
4884char *s);
4885 Given the short name 's', return the NID of the object.
4886
4887char *OBJ_bsearch(
4888char *key,
4889char *base,
4890int num,
4891int size,
4892int (*cmp)());
4893 Since I have come across a few platforms that do not have the
4894 bsearch() function, OBJ_bsearch is my version of that function.
4895 Feel free to use this function, but you may as well just use the
4896 normal system bsearch(3) if it is present. This version also
4897 has tolerance of being passed NULL pointers.
4898
4899==== keys ===========================================================
4900
4901EVP_PKEY_DSA
4902EVP_PKEY_DSA2
4903EVP_PKEY_DSA3
4904EVP_PKEY_DSA4
4905
4906EVP_PKEY_RSA
4907EVP_PKEY_RSA2
4908
4909valid DSA pkey types
4910 NID_dsa
4911 NID_dsaWithSHA
4912 NID_dsaWithSHA1
4913 NID_dsaWithSHA1_2
4914
4915valid RSA pkey types
4916 NID_rsaEncryption
4917 NID_rsa
4918
4919NID_dsaWithSHA NID_dsaWithSHA DSA SHA
4920NID_dsa NID_dsaWithSHA1 DSA SHA1
4921NID_md2 NID_md2WithRSAEncryption RSA-pkcs1 MD2
4922NID_md5 NID_md5WithRSAEncryption RSA-pkcs1 MD5
4923NID_mdc2 NID_mdc2WithRSA RSA-none MDC2
4924NID_ripemd160 NID_ripemd160WithRSA RSA-pkcs1 RIPEMD160
4925NID_sha NID_shaWithRSAEncryption RSA-pkcs1 SHA
4926NID_sha1 NID_sha1WithRSAEncryption RSA-pkcs1 SHA1
4927
4928==== rand.doc ========================================================
4929
4930My Random number library.
4931
4932These routines can be used to generate pseudo random numbers and can be
4933used to 'seed' the pseudo random number generator (RNG). The RNG make no
4934effort to reproduce the same random number stream with each execution.
4935Various other routines in the SSLeay library 'seed' the RNG when suitable
4936'random' input data is available. Read the section at the end for details
4937on the design of the RNG.
4938
4939void RAND_bytes(
4940unsigned char *buf,
4941int num);
4942 This routine puts 'num' random bytes into 'buf'. One should make
4943 sure RAND_seed() has been called before using this routine.
4944
4945void RAND_seed(
4946unsigned char *buf,
4947int num);
4948 This routine adds more 'seed' data the RNG state. 'num' bytes
4949 are added to the RNG state, they are taken from 'buf'. This
4950 routine can be called with sensitive data such as user entered
4951 passwords. This sensitive data is in no way recoverable from
4952 the RAND library routines or state. Try to pass as much data
4953 from 'random' sources as possible into the RNG via this function.
4954 Also strongly consider using the RAND_load_file() and
4955 RAND_write_file() routines.
4956
4957void RAND_cleanup();
4958 When a program has finished with the RAND library, if it so
4959 desires, it can 'zero' all RNG state.
4960
4961The following 3 routines are convenience routines that can be used to
4962'save' and 'restore' data from/to the RNG and it's state.
4963Since the more 'random' data that is feed as seed data the better, why not
4964keep it around between executions of the program? Of course the
4965application should pass more 'random' data in via RAND_seed() and
4966make sure no-one can read the 'random' data file.
4967
4968char *RAND_file_name(
4969char *buf,
4970int size);
4971 This routine returns a 'default' name for the location of a 'rand'
4972 file. The 'rand' file should keep a sequence of random bytes used
4973 to initialise the RNG. The filename is put in 'buf'. Buf is 'size'
4974 bytes long. Buf is returned if things go well, if they do not,
4975 NULL is returned. The 'rand' file name is generated in the
4976 following way. First, if there is a 'RANDFILE' environment
4977 variable, it is returned. Second, if there is a 'HOME' environment
4978 variable, $HOME/.rand is returned. Third, NULL is returned. NULL
4979 is also returned if a buf would overflow.
4980
4981int RAND_load_file(
4982char *file,
4983long number);
4984 This function 'adds' the 'file' into the RNG state. It does this by
4985 doing a RAND_seed() on the value returned from a stat() system call
4986 on the file and if 'number' is non-zero, upto 'number' bytes read
4987 from the file. The number of bytes passed to RAND_seed() is returned.
4988
4989int RAND_write_file(
4990char *file),
4991 RAND_write_file() writes N random bytes to the file 'file', where
4992 N is the size of the internal RND state (currently 1k).
4993 This is a suitable method of saving RNG state for reloading via
4994 RAND_load_file().
4995
4996What follows is a description of this RNG and a description of the rational
4997behind it's design.
4998
4999It should be noted that this RNG is intended to be used to generate
5000'random' keys for various ciphers including generation of DH and RSA keys.
5001
5002It should also be noted that I have just created a system that I am happy with.
5003It may be overkill but that does not worry me. I have not spent that much
5004time on this algorithm so if there are glaring errors, please let me know.
5005Speed has not been a consideration in the design of these routines.
5006
5007First up I will state the things I believe I need for a good RNG.
50081) A good hashing algorithm to mix things up and to convert the RNG 'state'
5009 to random numbers.
50102) An initial source of random 'state'.
50113) The state should be very large. If the RNG is being used to generate
5012 4096 bit RSA keys, 2 2048 bit random strings are required (at a minimum).
5013 If your RNG state only has 128 bits, you are obviously limiting the
5014 search space to 128 bits, not 2048. I'm probably getting a little
5015 carried away on this last point but it does indicate that it may not be
5016 a bad idea to keep quite a lot of RNG state. It should be easier to
5017 break a cipher than guess the RNG seed data.
50184) Any RNG seed data should influence all subsequent random numbers
5019 generated. This implies that any random seed data entered will have
5020 an influence on all subsequent random numbers generated.
50215) When using data to seed the RNG state, the data used should not be
5022 extractable from the RNG state. I believe this should be a
5023 requirement because one possible source of 'secret' semi random
5024 data would be a private key or a password. This data must
5025 not be disclosed by either subsequent random numbers or a
5026 'core' dump left by a program crash.
50276) Given the same initial 'state', 2 systems should deviate in their RNG state
5028 (and hence the random numbers generated) over time if at all possible.
50297) Given the random number output stream, it should not be possible to determine
5030 the RNG state or the next random number.
5031
5032
5033The algorithm is as follows.
5034
5035There is global state made up of a 1023 byte buffer (the 'state'), a
5036working message digest ('md') and a counter ('count').
5037
5038Whenever seed data is added, it is inserted into the 'state' as
5039follows.
5040 The input is chopped up into units of 16 bytes (or less for
5041 the last block). Each of these blocks is run through the MD5
5042 message digest. The data passed to the MD5 digest is the
5043 current 'md', the same number of bytes from the 'state'
5044 (the location determined by in incremented looping index) as
5045 the current 'block' and the new key data 'block'. The result
5046 of this is kept in 'md' and also xored into the 'state' at the
5047 same locations that were used as input into the MD5.
5048 I believe this system addresses points 1 (MD5), 3 (the 'state'),
5049 4 (via the 'md'), 5 (by the use of MD5 and xor).
5050
5051When bytes are extracted from the RNG, the following process is used.
5052For each group of 8 bytes (or less), we do the following,
5053 Input into MD5, the top 8 bytes from 'md', the byte that are
5054 to be overwritten by the random bytes and bytes from the
5055 'state' (incrementing looping index). From this digest output
5056 (which is kept in 'md'), the top (upto) 8 bytes are
5057 returned to the caller and the bottom (upto) 8 bytes are xored
5058 into the 'state'.
5059 Finally, after we have finished 'generation' random bytes for the
5060 called, 'count' (which is incremented) and 'md' are fed into MD5 and
5061 the results are kept in 'md'.
5062 I believe the above addressed points 1 (use of MD5), 6 (by
5063 hashing into the 'state' the 'old' data from the caller that
5064 is about to be overwritten) and 7 (by not using the 8 bytes
5065 given to the caller to update the 'state', but they are used
5066 to update 'md').
5067
5068So of the points raised, only 2 is not addressed, but sources of
5069random data will always be a problem.
5070
5071
5072==== rc2.doc ========================================================
5073
5074The RC2 library.
5075
5076RC2 is a block cipher that operates on 64bit (8 byte) quantities. It
5077uses variable size key, but 128bit (16 byte) key would normally be considered
5078good. It can be used in all the modes that DES can be used. This
5079library implements the ecb, cbc, cfb64, ofb64 modes.
5080
5081I have implemented this library from an article posted to sci.crypt on
508211-Feb-1996. I personally don't know how far to trust the RC2 cipher.
5083While it is capable of having a key of any size, not much reseach has
5084publically been done on it at this point in time (Apr-1996)
5085since the cipher has only been public for a few months :-)
5086It is of a similar speed to DES and IDEA, so unless it is required for
5087meeting some standard (SSLv2, perhaps S/MIME), it would probably be advisable
5088to stick to IDEA, or for the paranoid, Tripple DES.
5089
5090Mind you, having said all that, I should mention that I just read alot and
5091implement ciphers, I'm a 'babe in the woods' when it comes to evaluating
5092ciphers :-).
5093
5094For all calls that have an 'input' and 'output' variables, they can be the
5095same.
5096
5097This library requires the inclusion of 'rc2.h'.
5098
5099All of the encryption functions take what is called an RC2_KEY as an
5100argument. An RC2_KEY is an expanded form of the RC2 key.
5101For all modes of the RC2 algorithm, the RC2_KEY used for
5102decryption is the same one that was used for encryption.
5103
5104The define RC2_ENCRYPT is passed to specify encryption for the functions
5105that require an encryption/decryption flag. RC2_DECRYPT is passed to
5106specify decryption.
5107
5108Please note that any of the encryption modes specified in my DES library
5109could be used with RC2. I have only implemented ecb, cbc, cfb64 and
5110ofb64 for the following reasons.
5111- ecb is the basic RC2 encryption.
5112- cbc is the normal 'chaining' form for block ciphers.
5113- cfb64 can be used to encrypt single characters, therefore input and output
5114 do not need to be a multiple of 8.
5115- ofb64 is similar to cfb64 but is more like a stream cipher, not as
5116 secure (not cipher feedback) but it does not have an encrypt/decrypt mode.
5117- If you want triple RC2, thats 384 bits of key and you must be totally
5118 obsessed with security. Still, if you want it, it is simple enough to
5119 copy the function from the DES library and change the des_encrypt to
5120 RC2_encrypt; an exercise left for the paranoid reader :-).
5121
5122The functions are as follows:
5123
5124void RC2_set_key(
5125RC2_KEY *ks;
5126int len;
5127unsigned char *key;
5128int bits;
5129 RC2_set_key converts an 'len' byte key into a RC2_KEY.
5130 A 'ks' is an expanded form of the 'key' which is used to
5131 perform actual encryption. It can be regenerated from the RC2 key
5132 so it only needs to be kept when encryption or decryption is about
5133 to occur. Don't save or pass around RC2_KEY's since they
5134 are CPU architecture dependent, 'key's are not. RC2 is an
5135 interesting cipher in that it can be used with a variable length
5136 key. 'len' is the length of 'key' to be used as the key.
5137 A 'len' of 16 is recomended. The 'bits' argument is an
5138 interesting addition which I only found out about in Aug 96.
5139 BSAFE uses this parameter to 'limit' the number of bits used
5140 for the key. To use the 'key' unmodified, set bits to 1024.
5141 This is what old versions of my RC2 library did (SSLeay 0.6.3).
5142 RSAs BSAFE library sets this parameter to be 128 if 128 bit
5143 keys are being used. So to be compatable with BSAFE, set it
5144 to 128, if you don't want to reduce RC2's key length, leave it
5145 at 1024.
5146
5147void RC2_encrypt(
5148unsigned long *data,
5149RC2_KEY *key,
5150int encrypt);
5151 This is the RC2 encryption function that gets called by just about
5152 every other RC2 routine in the library. You should not use this
5153 function except to implement 'modes' of RC2. I say this because the
5154 functions that call this routine do the conversion from 'char *' to
5155 long, and this needs to be done to make sure 'non-aligned' memory
5156 access do not occur.
5157 Data is a pointer to 2 unsigned long's and key is the
5158 RC2_KEY to use. Encryption or decryption is indicated by 'encrypt'.
5159 which can have the values RC2_ENCRYPT or RC2_DECRYPT.
5160
5161void RC2_ecb_encrypt(
5162unsigned char *in,
5163unsigned char *out,
5164RC2_KEY *key,
5165int encrypt);
5166 This is the basic Electronic Code Book form of RC2 (in DES this
5167 mode is called Electronic Code Book so I'm going to use the term
5168 for rc2 as well.
5169 Input is encrypted into output using the key represented by
5170 key. Depending on the encrypt, encryption or
5171 decryption occurs. Input is 8 bytes long and output is 8 bytes.
5172
5173void RC2_cbc_encrypt(
5174unsigned char *in,
5175unsigned char *out,
5176long length,
5177RC2_KEY *ks,
5178unsigned char *ivec,
5179int encrypt);
5180 This routine implements RC2 in Cipher Block Chaining mode.
5181 Input, which should be a multiple of 8 bytes is encrypted
5182 (or decrypted) to output which will also be a multiple of 8 bytes.
5183 The number of bytes is in length (and from what I've said above,
5184 should be a multiple of 8). If length is not a multiple of 8, bad
5185 things will probably happen. ivec is the initialisation vector.
5186 This function updates iv after each call so that it can be passed to
5187 the next call to RC2_cbc_encrypt().
5188
5189void RC2_cfb64_encrypt(
5190unsigned char *in,
5191unsigned char *out,
5192long length,
5193RC2_KEY *schedule,
5194unsigned char *ivec,
5195int *num,
5196int encrypt);
5197 This is one of the more useful functions in this RC2 library, it
5198 implements CFB mode of RC2 with 64bit feedback.
5199 This allows you to encrypt an arbitrary number of bytes,
5200 you do not require 8 byte padding. Each call to this
5201 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
5202 and num. Num contains 'how far' we are though ivec.
5203 'Encrypt' is used to indicate encryption or decryption.
5204 CFB64 mode operates by using the cipher to generate a stream
5205 of bytes which is used to encrypt the plain text.
5206 The cipher text is then encrypted to generate the next 64 bits to
5207 be xored (incrementally) with the next 64 bits of plain
5208 text. As can be seen from this, to encrypt or decrypt,
5209 the same 'cipher stream' needs to be generated but the way the next
5210 block of data is gathered for encryption is different for
5211 encryption and decryption.
5212
5213void RC2_ofb64_encrypt(
5214unsigned char *in,
5215unsigned char *out,
5216long length,
5217RC2_KEY *schedule,
5218unsigned char *ivec,
5219int *num);
5220 This functions implements OFB mode of RC2 with 64bit feedback.
5221 This allows you to encrypt an arbitrary number of bytes,
5222 you do not require 8 byte padding. Each call to this
5223 routine will encrypt the input bytes to output and then update ivec
5224 and num. Num contains 'how far' we are though ivec.
5225 This is in effect a stream cipher, there is no encryption or
5226 decryption mode.
5227
5228For reading passwords, I suggest using des_read_pw_string() from my DES library.
5229To generate a password from a text string, I suggest using MD5 (or MD2) to
5230produce a 16 byte message digest that can then be passed directly to
5231RC2_set_key().
5232
5233=====
5234For more information about the specific RC2 modes in this library
5235(ecb, cbc, cfb and ofb), read the section entitled 'Modes of DES' from the
5236documentation on my DES library. What is said about DES is directly
5237applicable for RC2.
5238
5239
5240==== rc4.doc ========================================================
5241
5242The RC4 library.
5243RC4 is a stream cipher that operates on a byte stream. It can be used with
5244any length key but I would recommend normally using 16 bytes.
5245
5246This library requires the inclusion of 'rc4.h'.
5247
5248The RC4 encryption function takes what is called an RC4_KEY as an argument.
5249The RC4_KEY is generated by the RC4_set_key function from the key bytes.
5250
5251RC4, being a stream cipher, does not have an encryption or decryption mode.
5252It produces a stream of bytes that the input stream is xor'ed against and
5253so decryption is just a case of 'encrypting' again with the same key.
5254
5255I have only put in one 'mode' for RC4 which is the normal one. This means
5256there is no initialisation vector and there is no feedback of the cipher
5257text into the cipher. This implies that you should not ever use the
5258same key twice if you can help it. If you do, you leave yourself open to
5259known plain text attacks; if you know the plain text and
5260corresponding cipher text in one message, all messages that used the same
5261key can have the cipher text decoded for the corresponding positions in the
5262cipher stream.
5263
5264The main positive feature of RC4 is that it is a very fast cipher; about 4
5265times faster that DES. This makes it ideally suited to protocols where the
5266key is randomly chosen, like SSL.
5267
5268The functions are as follows:
5269
5270void RC4_set_key(
5271RC4_KEY *key;
5272int len;
5273unsigned char *data);
5274 This function initialises the RC4_KEY structure with the key passed
5275 in 'data', which is 'len' bytes long. The key data can be any
5276 length but 16 bytes seems to be a good number.
5277
5278void RC4(
5279RC4_KEY *key;
5280unsigned long len;
5281unsigned char *in;
5282unsigned char *out);
5283 Do the actual RC4 encryption/decryption. Using the 'key', 'len'
5284 bytes are transformed from 'in' to 'out'. As mentioned above,
5285 decryption is the operation as encryption.
5286
5287==== ref.doc ========================================================
5288
5289I have lots more references etc, and will update this list in the future,
529030 Aug 1996 - eay
5291
5292
5293SSL The SSL Protocol - from Netscapes.
5294
5295RC4 Newsgroups: sci.crypt
5296 From: sterndark@netcom.com (David Sterndark)
5297 Subject: RC4 Algorithm revealed.
5298 Message-ID: <sternCvKL4B.Hyy@netcom.com>
5299
5300RC2 Newsgroups: sci.crypt
5301 From: pgut01@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
5302 Subject: Specification for Ron Rivests Cipher No.2
5303 Message-ID: <4fk39f$f70@net.auckland.ac.nz>
5304
5305MD2 RFC1319 The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm
5306MD5 RFC1321 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
5307
5308X509 Certificates
5309 RFC1421 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I
5310 RFC1422 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II
5311 RFC1423 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III
5312 RFC1424 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part IV
5313
5314RSA and various standard encoding
5315 PKCS#1 RSA Encryption Standard
5316 PKCS#5 Password-Based Encryption Standard
5317 PKCS#7 Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard
5318 A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER
5319 An Overview of the PKCS Standards
5320 Some Examples of the PKCS Standards
5321
5322IDEA Chapter 3 The Block Cipher IDEA
5323
5324RSA, prime number generation and bignum algorithms
5325 Introduction To Algorithms,
5326 Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest,
5327 Section 29 Arithmetic Circuits
5328 Section 33 Number-Theoretic Algorithms
5329
5330Fast Private Key algorithm
5331 Fast Decipherment Algorithm for RSA Public-Key Cryptosystem
5332 J.-J. Quisquater and C. Couvreur, Electronics Letters,
5333 14th October 1982, Vol. 18 No. 21
5334
5335Prime number generation and bignum algorithms.
5336 PGP-2.3a
5337
5338==== rsa.doc ========================================================
5339
5340The RSA encryption and utility routines.
5341
5342The RSA routines are built on top of a big number library (the BN library).
5343There are support routines in the X509 library for loading and manipulating
5344the various objects in the RSA library. When errors are returned, read
5345about the ERR library for how to access the error codes.
5346
5347All RSA encryption is done according to the PKCS-1 standard which is
5348compatible with PEM and RSAref. This means that any values being encrypted
5349must be less than the size of the modulus in bytes, minus 10, bytes long.
5350
5351This library uses RAND_bytes()() for it's random data, make sure to feed
5352RAND_seed() with lots of interesting and varied data before using these
5353routines.
5354
5355The RSA library has one specific data type, the RSA structure.
5356It is composed of 8 BIGNUM variables (see the BN library for details) and
5357can hold either a private RSA key or a public RSA key.
5358Some RSA libraries have different structures for public and private keys, I
5359don't. For my libraries, a public key is determined by the fact that the
5360RSA->d value is NULL. These routines will operate on any size RSA keys.
5361While I'm sure 4096 bit keys are very very secure, they take a lot longer
5362to process that 1024 bit keys :-).
5363
5364The function in the RSA library are as follows.
5365
5366RSA *RSA_new();
5367 This function creates a new RSA object. The sub-fields of the RSA
5368 type are also malloced so you should always use this routine to
5369 create RSA variables.
5370
5371void RSA_free(
5372RSA *rsa);
5373 This function 'frees' an RSA structure. This routine should always
5374 be used to free the RSA structure since it will also 'free' any
5375 sub-fields of the RSA type that need freeing.
5376
5377int RSA_size(
5378RSA *rsa);
5379 This function returns the size of the RSA modulus in bytes. Why do
5380 I need this you may ask, well the reason is that when you encrypt
5381 with RSA, the output string will be the size of the RSA modulus.
5382 So the output for the RSA_encrypt and the input for the RSA_decrypt
5383 routines need to be RSA_size() bytes long, because this is how many
5384 bytes are expected.
5385
5386For the following 4 RSA encryption routines, it should be noted that
5387RSA_private_decrypt() should be used on the output from
5388RSA_public_encrypt() and RSA_public_decrypt() should be used on
5389the output from RSA_private_encrypt().
5390
5391int RSA_public_encrypt(
5392int from_len;
5393unsigned char *from
5394unsigned char *to
5395RSA *rsa);
5396 This function implements RSA public encryption, the rsa variable
5397 should be a public key (but can be a private key). 'from_len'
5398 bytes taken from 'from' and encrypted and put into 'to'. 'to' needs
5399 to be at least RSA_size(rsa) bytes long. The number of bytes
5400 written into 'to' is returned. -1 is returned on an error. The
5401 operation performed is
5402 to = from^rsa->e mod rsa->n.
5403
5404int RSA_private_encrypt(
5405int from_len;
5406unsigned char *from
5407unsigned char *to
5408RSA *rsa);
5409 This function implements RSA private encryption, the rsa variable
5410 should be a private key. 'from_len' bytes taken from
5411 'from' and encrypted and put into 'to'. 'to' needs
5412 to be at least RSA_size(rsa) bytes long. The number of bytes
5413 written into 'to' is returned. -1 is returned on an error. The
5414 operation performed is
5415 to = from^rsa->d mod rsa->n.
5416
5417int RSA_public_decrypt(
5418int from_len;
5419unsigned char *from
5420unsigned char *to
5421RSA *rsa);
5422 This function implements RSA public decryption, the rsa variable
5423 should be a public key (but can be a private key). 'from_len'
5424 bytes are taken from 'from' and decrypted. The decrypted data is
5425 put into 'to'. The number of bytes encrypted is returned. -1 is
5426 returned to indicate an error. The operation performed is
5427 to = from^rsa->e mod rsa->n.
5428
5429int RSA_private_decrypt(
5430int from_len;
5431unsigned char *from
5432unsigned char *to
5433RSA *rsa);
5434 This function implements RSA private decryption, the rsa variable
5435 should be a private key. 'from_len' bytes are taken
5436 from 'from' and decrypted. The decrypted data is
5437 put into 'to'. The number of bytes encrypted is returned. -1 is
5438 returned to indicate an error. The operation performed is
5439 to = from^rsa->d mod rsa->n.
5440
5441int RSA_mod_exp(
5442BIGNUM *n;
5443BIGNUM *p;
5444RSA *rsa);
5445 Normally you will never use this routine.
5446 This is really an internal function which is called by
5447 RSA_private_encrypt() and RSA_private_decrypt(). It performs
5448 n=n^p mod rsa->n except that it uses the 5 extra variables in the
5449 RSA structure to make this more efficient.
5450
5451RSA *RSA_generate_key(
5452int bits;
5453unsigned long e;
5454void (*callback)();
5455char *cb_arg;
5456 This routine is used to generate RSA private keys. It takes
5457 quite a period of time to run and should only be used to
5458 generate initial private keys that should then be stored
5459 for later use. The passed callback function
5460 will be called periodically so that feedback can be given
5461 as to how this function is progressing.
5462 'bits' is the length desired for the modulus, so it would be 1024
5463 to generate a 1024 bit private key.
5464 'e' is the value to use for the public exponent 'e'. Traditionally
5465 it is set to either 3 or 0x10001.
5466 The callback function (if not NULL) is called in the following
5467 situations.
5468 when we have generated a suspected prime number to test,
5469 callback(0,num1++,cb_arg). When it passes a prime number test,
5470 callback(1,num2++,cb_arg). When it is rejected as one of
5471 the 2 primes required due to gcd(prime,e value) != 0,
5472 callback(2,num3++,cb_arg). When finally accepted as one
5473 of the 2 primes, callback(3,num4++,cb_arg).
5474
5475
5476==== rsaref.doc ========================================================
5477
5478This package can be compiled to use the RSAref library.
5479This library is not allowed outside of the USA but inside the USA it is
5480claimed by RSA to be the only RSA public key library that can be used
5481besides BSAFE..
5482
5483There are 2 files, rsaref/rsaref.c and rsaref/rsaref.h that contain the glue
5484code to use RSAref. These files were written by looking at the PGP
5485source code and seeing which routines it used to access RSAref.
5486I have also been sent by some-one a copy of the RSAref header file that
5487contains the library error codes.
5488
5489[ Jun 1996 update - I have recently gotten hold of RSAref 2.0 from
5490 South Africa and have been doing some performace tests. ]
5491
5492They have now been tested against the recently announced RSAEURO
5493library.
5494
5495There are 2 ways to use SSLeay and RSAref. First, to build so that
5496the programs must be linked with RSAref, add '-DRSAref' to CFLAG in the top
5497level makefile and -lrsaref (or where ever you are keeping RSAref) to
5498EX_LIBS.
5499
5500To build a makefile via util/mk1mf.pl to do this, use the 'rsaref' option.
5501
5502The second method is to build as per normal and link applications with
5503the RSAglue library. The correct library order would be
5504cc -o cmd cmd.o -lssl -lRSAglue -lcrypto -lrsaref -ldes
5505The RSAglue library is built in the rsa directory and is NOT
5506automatically installed.
5507
5508Be warned that the RSAEURO library, that is claimed to be compatible
5509with RSAref contains a different value for the maximum number of bits
5510supported. This changes structure sizes and so if you are using
5511RSAEURO, change the value of RSAref_MAX_BITS in rsa/rsaref.h
5512
5513
5514==== s_mult.doc ========================================================
5515
5516s_mult is a test program I hacked up on a Sunday for testing non-blocking
5517IO. It has a select loop at it's centre that handles multiple readers
5518and writers.
5519
5520Try the following command
5521ssleay s_mult -echo -nbio -ssl -v
5522echo - sends any sent text back to the sender
5523nbio - turns on non-blocking IO
5524ssl - accept SSL connections, default is normal text
5525v - print lots
5526 type Q<cr> to quit
5527
5528In another window, run the following
5529ssleay s_client -pause </etc/termcap
5530
5531The pause option puts in a 1 second pause in each read(2)/write(2) call
5532so the other end will have read()s fail.
5533
5534==== session.doc ========================================================
5535
5536I have just checked over and re-worked the session stuff.
5537The following brief example will ignore all setup information to do with
5538authentication.
5539
5540Things operate as follows.
5541
5542The SSL environment has a 'context', a SSL_CTX structure. This holds the
5543cached SSL_SESSIONS (which can be reused) and the certificate lookup
5544information. Each SSL structure needs to be associated with a SSL_CTX.
5545Normally only one SSL_CTX structure is needed per program.
5546
5547SSL_CTX *SSL_CTX_new(void );
5548void SSL_CTX_free(SSL_CTX *);
5549These 2 functions create and destroy SSL_CTX structures
5550
5551The SSL_CTX has a session_cache_mode which is by default,
5552in SSL_SESS_CACHE_SERVER mode. What this means is that the library
5553will automatically add new session-id's to the cache apon sucsessful
5554SSL_accept() calls.
5555If SSL_SESS_CACHE_CLIENT is set, then client certificates are also added
5556to the cache.
5557SSL_set_session_cache_mode(ctx,mode) will set the 'mode' and
5558SSL_get_session_cache_mode(ctx) will get the cache 'mode'.
5559The modes can be
5560SSL_SESS_CACHE_OFF - no caching
5561SSL_SESS_CACHE_CLIENT - only SSL_connect()
5562SSL_SESS_CACHE_SERVER - only SSL_accept()
5563SSL_SESS_NO_CACHE_BOTH - Either SSL_accept() or SSL_connect().
5564If SSL_SESS_CACHE_NO_AUTO_CLEAR is set, old timed out sessions are
5565not automatically removed each 255, SSL_connect()s or SSL_accept()s.
5566
5567By default, apon every 255 successful SSL_connect() or SSL_accept()s,
5568the cache is flush. Please note that this could be expensive on
5569a heavily loaded SSL server, in which case, turn this off and
5570clear the cache of old entries 'manually' (with one of the functions
5571listed below) every few hours. Perhaps I should up this number, it is hard
5572to say. Remember, the '255' new calls is just a mechanims to get called
5573every now and then, in theory at most 255 new session-id's will have been
5574added but if 100 are added every minute, you would still have
5575500 in the cache before any would start being flushed (assuming a 3 minute
5576timeout)..
5577
5578int SSL_CTX_sess_hits(SSL_CTX *ctx);
5579int SSL_CTX_sess_misses(SSL_CTX *ctx);
5580int SSL_CTX_sess_timeouts(SSL_CTX *ctx);
5581These 3 functions return statistics about the SSL_CTX. These 3 are the
5582number of session id reuses. hits is the number of reuses, misses are the
5583number of lookups that failed, and timeouts is the number of cached
5584entries ignored because they had timeouted.
5585
5586ctx->new_session_cb is a function pointer to a function of type
5587int new_session_callback(SSL *ssl,SSL_SESSION *new);
5588This function, if set in the SSL_CTX structure is called whenever a new
5589SSL_SESSION is added to the cache. If the callback returns non-zero, it
5590means that the application will have to do a SSL_SESSION_free()
5591on the structure (this is
5592to do with the cache keeping the reference counts correct, without the
5593application needing to know about it.
5594The 'active' parameter is the current SSL session for which this connection
5595was created.
5596
5597void SSL_CTX_sess_set_new_cb(SSL_CTX *ctx,int (*cb)());
5598to set the callback,
5599int (*cb)() SSL_CTX_sess_get_new_cb(SSL_CTX *ctx)
5600to get the callback.
5601
5602If the 'get session' callback is set, when a session id is looked up and
5603it is not in the session-id cache, this callback is called. The callback is
5604of the form
5605SSL_SESSION *get_session_callback(unsigned char *sess_id,int sess_id_len,
5606 int *copy);
5607
5608The get_session_callback is intended to return null if no session id is found.
5609The reference count on the SSL_SESSION in incremented by the SSL library,
5610if copy is 1. Otherwise, the reference count is not modified.
5611
5612void SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb(ctx,cb) sets the callback and
5613int (*cb)()SSL_CTX_sess_get_get_cb(ctx) returns the callback.
5614
5615These callbacks are basically indended to be used by processes to
5616send their session-id's to other processes. I currently have not implemented
5617non-blocking semantics for these callbacks, it is upto the appication
5618to make the callbacks effiecent if they require blocking (perhaps
5619by 'saving' them and then 'posting them' when control returns from
5620the SSL_accept().
5621
5622LHASH *SSL_CTX_sessions(SSL_CTX *ctx)
5623This returns the session cache. The lhash strucutre can be accessed for
5624statistics about the cache.
5625
5626void lh_stats(LHASH *lh, FILE *out);
5627void lh_node_stats(LHASH *lh, FILE *out);
5628void lh_node_usage_stats(LHASH *lh, FILE *out);
5629
5630can be used to print details about it's activity and current state.
5631You can also delve directly into the lhash structure for 14 different
5632counters that are kept against the structure. When I wrote the lhash library,
5633I was interested in gathering statistics :-).
5634Have a read of doc/lhash.doc in the SSLeay distribution area for more details
5635on the lhash library.
5636
5637Now as mentioned ealier, when a SSL is created, it needs a SSL_CTX.
5638SSL * SSL_new(SSL_CTX *);
5639
5640This stores a session. A session is secret information shared between 2
5641SSL contexts. It will only be created if both ends of the connection have
5642authenticated their peer to their satisfaction. It basically contains
5643the information required to use a particular secret key cipher.
5644
5645To retrieve the SSL_CTX being used by a SSL,
5646SSL_CTX *SSL_get_SSL_CTX(SSL *s);
5647
5648Now when a SSL session is established between to programs, the 'session'
5649information that is cached in the SSL_CTX can me manipulated by the
5650following functions.
5651int SSL_set_session(SSL *s, SSL_SESSION *session);
5652This will set the SSL_SESSION to use for the next SSL_connect(). If you use
5653this function on an already 'open' established SSL connection, 'bad things
5654will happen'. This function is meaning-less when used on a ssl strucutre
5655that is just about to be used in a SSL_accept() call since the
5656SSL_accept() will either create a new session or retrieve one from the
5657cache.
5658
5659SSL_SESSION *SSL_get_session(SSL *s);
5660This will return the SSL_SESSION for the current SSL, NULL if there is
5661no session associated with the SSL structure.
5662
5663The SSL sessions are kept in the SSL_CTX in a hash table, to remove a
5664session
5665void SSL_CTX_remove_session(SSL_CTX *,SSL_SESSION *c);
5666and to add one
5667int SSL_CTX_add_session(SSL_CTX *s, SSL_SESSION *c);
5668SSL_CTX_add_session() returns 1 if the session was already in the cache (so it
5669was not added).
5670Whenever a new session is created via SSL_connect()/SSL_accept(),
5671they are automatically added to the cache, depending on the session_cache_mode
5672settings. SSL_set_session()
5673does not add it to the cache. Just call SSL_CTX_add_session() if you do want the
5674session added. For a 'client' this would not normally be the case.
5675SSL_CTX_add_session() is not normally ever used, except for doing 'evil' things
5676which the next 2 funtions help you do.
5677
5678int i2d_SSL_SESSION(SSL_SESSION *in,unsigned char **pp);
5679SSL_SESSION *d2i_SSL_SESSION(SSL_SESSION **a,unsigned char **pp,long length);
5680These 2 functions are in the standard ASN1 library form and can be used to
5681load and save to a byte format, the SSL_SESSION structure.
5682With these functions, you can save and read these structures to a files or
5683arbitary byte string.
5684The PEM_write_SSL_SESSION(fp,x) and PEM_read_SSL_SESSION(fp,x,cb) will
5685write to a file pointer in base64 encoding.
5686
5687What you can do with this, is pass session information between separate
5688processes. Please note, that you will probably also need to modify the
5689timeout information on the SSL_SESSIONs.
5690
5691long SSL_get_time(SSL_SESSION *s)
5692will return the 'time' that the session
5693was loaded. The timeout is relative to this time. This information is
5694saved when the SSL_SESSION is converted to binarary but it is stored
5695in as a unix long, which is rather OS dependant, but easy to convert back.
5696
5697long SSL_set_time(SSL_SESSION *s,long t) will set the above mentioned time.
5698The time value is just the value returned from time(3), and should really
5699be defined by be to be time_t.
5700
5701long SSL_get_timeout(SSL_SESSION *s);
5702long SSL_set_timeout(SSL_SESSION *s,long t);
5703These 2 retrieve and set the timeout which is just a number of secconds
5704from the 'SSL_get_time()' value. When this time period has elapesed,
5705the session will no longer be in the cache (well it will actually be removed
5706the next time it is attempted to be retrieved, so you could 'bump'
5707the timeout so it remains valid).
5708The 'time' and 'timeout' are set on a session when it is created, not reset
5709each time it is reused. If you did wish to 'bump it', just after establishing
5710a connection, do a
5711SSL_set_time(ssl,time(NULL));
5712
5713You can also use
5714SSL_CTX_set_timeout(SSL_CTX *ctx,unsigned long t) and
5715SSL_CTX_get_timeout(SSL_CTX *ctx) to manipulate the default timeouts for
5716all SSL connections created against a SSL_CTX. If you set a timeout in
5717an SSL_CTX, all new SSL's created will inherit the timeout. It can be over
5718written by the SSL_set_timeout(SSL *s,unsigned long t) function call.
5719If you 'set' the timeout back to 0, the system default will be used.
5720
5721SSL_SESSION *SSL_SESSION_new();
5722void SSL_SESSION_free(SSL_SESSION *ses);
5723These 2 functions are used to create and dispose of SSL_SESSION functions.
5724You should not ever normally need to use them unless you are using
5725i2d_SSL_SESSION() and/or d2i_SSL_SESSION(). If you 'load' a SSL_SESSION
5726via d2i_SSL_SESSION(), you will need to SSL_SESSION_free() it.
5727Both SSL_set_session() and SSL_CTX_add_session() will 'take copies' of the
5728structure (via reference counts) when it is passed to them.
5729
5730SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(ctx,time);
5731The first function will clear all sessions from the cache, which have expired
5732relative to 'time' (which could just be time(NULL)).
5733
5734SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(ctx,0);
5735This is a special case that clears everything.
5736
5737As a final comment, a 'session' is not enough to establish a new
5738connection. If a session has timed out, a certificate and private key
5739need to have been associated with the SSL structure.
5740SSL_copy_session_id(SSL *to,SSL *from); will copy not only the session
5741strucutre but also the private key and certificate associated with
5742'from'.
5743
5744EXAMPLES.
5745
5746So lets play at being a wierd SSL server.
5747
5748/* setup a context */
5749ctx=SSL_CTX_new();
5750
5751/* Lets load some session from binary into the cache, why one would do
5752 * this is not toally clear, but passing between programs does make sense
5753 * Perhaps you are using 4096 bit keys and are happy to keep them
5754 * valid for a week, to avoid the RSA overhead of 15 seconds, I'm not toally
5755 * sure, perhaps this is a process called from an SSL inetd and this is being
5756 * passed to the application. */
5757session=d2i_SSL_SESSION(....)
5758SSL_CTX_add_session(ctx,session);
5759
5760/* Lets even add a session from a file */
5761session=PEM_read_SSL_SESSION(....)
5762SSL_CTX_add_session(ctx,session);
5763
5764/* create a new SSL structure */
5765ssl=SSL_new(ctx);
5766
5767/* At this point we want to be able to 'create' new session if
5768 * required, so we need a certificate and RSAkey. */
5769SSL_use_RSAPrivateKey_file(ssl,...)
5770SSL_use_certificate_file(ssl,...)
5771
5772/* Now since we are a server, it make little sence to load a session against
5773 * the ssl strucutre since a SSL_accept() will either create a new session or
5774 * grab an existing one from the cache. */
5775
5776/* grab a socket descriptor */
5777fd=accept(...);
5778
5779/* associated it with the ssl strucutre */
5780SSL_set_fd(ssl,fd);
5781
5782SSL_accept(ssl); /* 'do' SSL using out cert and RSA key */
5783
5784/* Lets print out the session details or lets save it to a file,
5785 * perhaps with a secret key cipher, so that we can pass it to the FBI
5786 * when they want to decode the session :-). While we have RSA
5787 * this does not matter much but when I do SSLv3, this will allow a mechanism
5788 * for the server/client to record the information needed to decode
5789 * the traffic that went over the wire, even when using Diffie-Hellman */
5790PEM_write_SSL_SESSION(SSL_get_session(ssl),stdout,....)
5791
5792Lets 'connect' back to the caller using the same session id.
5793
5794ssl2=SSL_new(ctx);
5795fd2=connect(them);
5796SSL_set_fd(ssl2,fd2);
5797SSL_set_session(ssl2,SSL_get_session(ssl));
5798SSL_connect(ssl2);
5799
5800/* what the hell, lets accept no more connections using this session */
5801SSL_CTX_remove_session(SSL_get_SSL_CTX(ssl),SSL_get_session(ssl));
5802
5803/* we could have just as easily used ssl2 since they both are using the
5804 * same session.
5805 * You will note that both ssl and ssl2 are still using the session, and
5806 * the SSL_SESSION structure will be free()ed when both ssl and ssl2
5807 * finish using the session. Also note that you could continue to initiate
5808 * connections using this session by doing SSL_get_session(ssl) to get the
5809 * existing session, but SSL_accept() will not be able to find it to
5810 * use for incoming connections.
5811 * Of corse, the session will timeout at the far end and it will no
5812 * longer be accepted after a while. The time and timeout are ignored except
5813 * by SSL_accept(). */
5814
5815/* Since we have had our server running for 10 weeks, and memory is getting
5816 * short, perhaps we should clear the session cache to remove those
5817 * 100000 session entries that have expired. Some may consider this
5818 * a memory leak :-) */
5819
5820SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(ctx,time(NULL));
5821
5822/* Ok, after a bit more time we wish to flush all sessions from the cache
5823 * so that all new connections will be authenticated and incure the
5824 * public key operation overhead */
5825
5826SSL_CTX_flush_sessions(ctx,0);
5827
5828/* As a final note, to copy everything to do with a SSL, use */
5829SSL_copy_session_id(SSL *to,SSL *from);
5830/* as this also copies the certificate and RSA key so new session can
5831 * be established using the same details */
5832
5833
5834==== sha.doc ========================================================
5835
5836The SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) library.
5837SHA is a message digest algorithm that can be used to condense an arbitrary
5838length message down to a 20 byte hash. The functions all need to be passed
5839a SHA_CTX which is used to hold the SHA context during multiple SHA_Update()
5840function calls. The normal method of use for this library is as follows
5841This library contains both SHA and SHA-1 digest algorithms. SHA-1 is
5842an update to SHA (which should really be called SHA-0 now) which
5843tweaks the algorithm slightly. The SHA-1 algorithm is used by simply
5844using SHA1_Init(), SHA1_Update(), SHA1_Final() and SHA1() instead of the
5845SHA*() calls
5846
5847SHA_Init(...);
5848SHA_Update(...);
5849...
5850SHA_Update(...);
5851SHA_Final(...);
5852
5853This library requires the inclusion of 'sha.h'.
5854
5855The functions are as follows:
5856
5857void SHA_Init(
5858SHA_CTX *c);
5859 This function needs to be called to initiate a SHA_CTX structure for
5860 use.
5861
5862void SHA_Update(
5863SHA_CTX *c;
5864unsigned char *data;
5865unsigned long len);
5866 This updates the message digest context being generated with 'len'
5867 bytes from the 'data' pointer. The number of bytes can be any
5868 length.
5869
5870void SHA_Final(
5871unsigned char *md;
5872SHA_CTX *c;
5873 This function is called when a message digest of the data digested
5874 with SHA_Update() is wanted. The message digest is put in the 'md'
5875 array and is SHA_DIGEST_LENGTH (20) bytes long.
5876
5877unsigned char *SHA(
5878unsigned char *d;
5879unsigned long n;
5880unsigned char *md;
5881 This function performs a SHA_Init(), followed by a SHA_Update()
5882 followed by a SHA_Final() (using a local SHA_CTX).
5883 The resulting digest is put into 'md' if it is not NULL.
5884 Regardless of the value of 'md', the message
5885 digest is returned from the function. If 'md' was NULL, the message
5886 digest returned is being stored in a static structure.
5887
5888
5889==== speed.doc ========================================================
5890
5891To get an idea of the performance of this library, use
5892ssleay speed
5893
5894perl util/sp-diff.pl file1 file2
5895
5896will print out the relative differences between the 2 files which are
5897expected to be the output from the speed program.
5898
5899The performace of the library is very dependant on the Compiler
5900quality and various flags used to build.
5901
5902---
5903
5904These are some numbers I did comparing RSAref and SSLeay on a Pentium 100.
5905[ These numbers are all out of date, as of SSL - 0.6.1 the RSA
5906operations are about 2 times faster, so check the version number ]
5907
5908RSA performance.
5909
5910SSLeay 0.6.0
5911Pentium 100, 32meg, Windows NT Workstation 3.51
5912linux - gcc v 2.7.0 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486
5913and
5914Windows NT - Windows NT 3.51 - Visual C++ 4.1 - 586 code + 32bit assember
5915Windows 3.1 - Windows NT 3.51 - Visual C++ 1.52c - 286 code + 32bit assember
5916NT Dos Shell- Windows NT 3.51 - Visual C++ 1.52c - 286 code + 16bit assember
5917
5918Times are how long it takes to do an RSA private key operation.
5919
5920 512bits 1024bits
5921-------------------------------
5922SSLeay NT dll 0.042s 0.202s see above
5923SSLeay linux 0.046s 0.218s Assember inner loops (normal build)
5924SSLeay linux 0.067s 0.380s Pure C code with BN_LLONG defined
5925SSLeay W3.1 dll 0.108s 0.478s see above
5926SSLeay linux 0.109s 0.713s C without BN_LLONG.
5927RSAref2.0 linux 0.149s 0.936s
5928SSLeay MS-DOS 0.197s 1.049s see above
5929
5930486DX66, 32meg, Windows NT Server 3.51
5931 512bits 1024bits
5932-------------------------------
5933SSLeay NT dll 0.084s 0.495s <- SSLeay 0.6.3
5934SSLeay NT dll 0.154s 0.882s
5935SSLeay W3.1 dll 0.335s 1.538s
5936SSLeay MS-DOS 0.490s 2.790s
5937
5938What I find cute is that I'm still faster than RSAref when using standard C,
5939without using the 'long long' data type :-), %35 faster for 512bit and we
5940scale up to 3.2 times faster for the 'default linux' build. I should mention
5941that people should 'try' to use either x86-lnx.s (elf), x86-lnxa.s or
5942x86-sol.s for any x86 based unix they are building on. The only problems
5943with be with syntax but the performance gain is quite large, especially for
5944servers. The code is very simple, you just need to modify the 'header'.
5945
5946The message is, if you are stuck using RSAref, the RSA performance will be
5947bad. Considering the code was compiled for a pentium, the 486DX66 number
5948would indicate 'Use RSAref and turn you Pentium 100 into a 486DX66' :-).
5949[ As of verson 0.6.1, it would be correct to say 'turn you pentium 100
5950 into a 486DX33' :-) ]
5951
5952I won't tell people if the DLL's are using RSAref or my stuff if no-one
5953asks :-).
5954
5955eric
5956
5957PS while I know I could speed things up further, I will probably not do
5958 so due to the effort involved. I did do some timings on the
5959 SSLeay bignum format -> RSAref number format conversion that occurs
5960 each time RSAref is used by SSLeay, and the numbers are trivial.
5961 0.00012s a call for 512bit vs 0.149s for the time spent in the function.
5962 0.00018s for 1024bit vs 0.938s. Insignificant.
5963 So the 'way to go', to support faster RSA libraries, if people are keen,
5964 is to write 'glue' code in a similar way that I do for RSAref and send it
5965 to me :-).
5966 My base library still has the advantage of being able to operate on
5967 any size numbers, and is not that far from the performance from the
5968 leaders in the field. (-%30?)
5969 [ Well as of 0.6.1 I am now the leader in the filed on x86 (we at
5970 least very close :-) ]
5971
5972 I suppose I should also mention some other numbers RSAref numbers, again
5973 on my Pentium.
5974 DES CBC EDE-DES MD5
5975 RSAref linux 830k/s 302k/s 4390k/s
5976 SSLeay linux 855k/s 319k/s 10025k/s
5977 SSLeay NT 1158k/s 410k/s 10470k/s
5978 SSLeay w31 378k/s 143k/s 2383k/s (fully 16bit)
5979
5980 Got to admit that Visual C++ 4.[01] is a damn fine compiler :-)
5981--
5982Eric Young | BOOL is tri-state according to Bill Gates.
5983AARNet: eay@cryptsoft.com | RTFM Win32 GetMessage().
5984
5985
5986
5987
5988==== ssl-ciph.doc ========================================================
5989
5990This is a quick high level summery of how things work now.
5991
5992Each SSLv2 and SSLv3 cipher is composed of 4 major attributes plus a few extra
5993minor ones.
5994
5995They are 'The key exchange algorithm', which is RSA for SSLv2 but can also
5996be Diffle-Hellman for SSLv3.
5997
5998An 'Authenticion algorithm', which can be RSA, Diffle-Helman, DSS or
5999none.
6000
6001The cipher
6002
6003The MAC digest.
6004
6005A cipher can also be an export cipher and is either an SSLv2 or a
6006SSLv3 ciphers.
6007
6008To specify which ciphers to use, one can either specify all the ciphers,
6009one at a time, or use 'aliases' to specify the preference and order for
6010the ciphers.
6011
6012There are a large number of aliases, but the most importaint are
6013kRSA, kDHr, kDHd and kEDH for key exchange types.
6014
6015aRSA, aDSS, aNULL and aDH for authentication
6016DES, 3DES, RC4, RC2, IDEA and eNULL for ciphers
6017MD5, SHA0 and SHA1 digests
6018
6019Now where this becomes interesting is that these can be put together to
6020specify the order and ciphers you wish to use.
6021
6022To speed this up there are also aliases for certian groups of ciphers.
6023The main ones are
6024SSLv2 - all SSLv2 ciphers
6025SSLv3 - all SSLv3 ciphers
6026EXP - all export ciphers
6027LOW - all low strngth ciphers (no export ciphers, normally single DES)
6028MEDIUM - 128 bit encryption
6029HIGH - Triple DES
6030
6031These aliases can be joined in a : separated list which specifies to
6032add ciphers, move them to the current location and delete them.
6033
6034A simpler way to look at all of this is to use the 'ssleay ciphers -v' command.
6035The default library cipher spec is
6036!ADH:RC4+RSA:HIGH:MEDIUM:LOW:EXP:+SSLv2:+EXP
6037which means, first, remove from consideration any ciphers that do not
6038authenticate. Next up, use ciphers using RC4 and RSA. Next include the HIGH,
6039MEDIUM and the LOW security ciphers. Finish up by adding all the export
6040ciphers on the end, then 'pull' all the SSLv2 and export ciphers to
6041the end of the list.
6042
6043The results are
6044$ ssleay ciphers -v '!ADH:RC4+RSA:HIGH:MEDIUM:LOW:EXP:+SSLv2:+EXP'
6045
6046RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1
6047RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5
6048EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1
6049EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1
6050DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1
6051IDEA-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=SHA1
6052EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1
6053EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1
6054DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1
6055DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5
6056DES-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=MD5
6057IDEA-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=MD5
6058RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC2(128) Mac=MD5
6059RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5
6060EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export
6061EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=DSS Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export
6062EXP-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export
6063EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export
6064EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export
6065EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export
6066EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export
6067
6068I would recoment people use the 'ssleay ciphers -v "text"'
6069command to check what they are going to use.
6070
6071Anyway, I'm falling asleep here so I'll do some more tomorrow.
6072
6073eric
6074
6075==== ssl.doc ========================================================
6076
6077SSL_CTX_sessions(SSL_CTX *ctx) - the session-id hash table.
6078
6079/* Session-id cache stats */
6080SSL_CTX_sess_number
6081SSL_CTX_sess_connect
6082SSL_CTX_sess_connect_good
6083SSL_CTX_sess_accept
6084SSL_CTX_sess_accept_good
6085SSL_CTX_sess_hits
6086SSL_CTX_sess_cb_hits
6087SSL_CTX_sess_misses
6088SSL_CTX_sess_timeouts
6089
6090/* Session-id application notification callbacks */
6091SSL_CTX_sess_set_new_cb
6092SSL_CTX_sess_get_new_cb
6093SSL_CTX_sess_set_get_cb
6094SSL_CTX_sess_get_get_cb
6095
6096/* Session-id cache operation mode */
6097SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode
6098SSL_CTX_get_session_cache_mode
6099
6100/* Set default timeout values to use. */
6101SSL_CTX_set_timeout
6102SSL_CTX_get_timeout
6103
6104/* Global SSL initalisation informational callback */
6105SSL_CTX_set_info_callback
6106SSL_CTX_get_info_callback
6107SSL_set_info_callback
6108SSL_get_info_callback
6109
6110/* If the SSL_accept/SSL_connect returned with -1, these indicate when
6111 * we should re-call *.
6112SSL_want
6113SSL_want_nothing
6114SSL_want_read
6115SSL_want_write
6116SSL_want_x509_lookup
6117
6118/* Where we are in SSL initalisation, used in non-blocking, perhaps
6119 * have a look at ssl/bio_ssl.c */
6120SSL_state
6121SSL_is_init_finished
6122SSL_in_init
6123SSL_in_connect_init
6124SSL_in_accept_init
6125
6126/* Used to set the 'inital' state so SSL_in_connect_init and SSL_in_accept_init
6127 * can be used to work out which function to call. */
6128SSL_set_connect_state
6129SSL_set_accept_state
6130
6131/* Where to look for certificates for authentication */
6132SSL_set_default_verify_paths /* calles SSL_load_verify_locations */
6133SSL_load_verify_locations
6134
6135/* get info from an established connection */
6136SSL_get_session
6137SSL_get_certificate
6138SSL_get_SSL_CTX
6139
6140SSL_CTX_new
6141SSL_CTX_free
6142SSL_new
6143SSL_clear
6144SSL_free
6145
6146SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list
6147SSL_get_cipher
6148SSL_set_cipher_list
6149SSL_get_cipher_list
6150SSL_get_shared_ciphers
6151
6152SSL_accept
6153SSL_connect
6154SSL_read
6155SSL_write
6156
6157SSL_debug
6158
6159SSL_get_read_ahead
6160SSL_set_read_ahead
6161SSL_set_verify
6162
6163SSL_pending
6164
6165SSL_set_fd
6166SSL_set_rfd
6167SSL_set_wfd
6168SSL_set_bio
6169SSL_get_fd
6170SSL_get_rbio
6171SSL_get_wbio
6172
6173SSL_use_RSAPrivateKey
6174SSL_use_RSAPrivateKey_ASN1
6175SSL_use_RSAPrivateKey_file
6176SSL_use_PrivateKey
6177SSL_use_PrivateKey_ASN1
6178SSL_use_PrivateKey_file
6179SSL_use_certificate
6180SSL_use_certificate_ASN1
6181SSL_use_certificate_file
6182
6183ERR_load_SSL_strings
6184SSL_load_error_strings
6185
6186/* human readable version of the 'state' of the SSL connection. */
6187SSL_state_string
6188SSL_state_string_long
6189/* These 2 report what kind of IO operation the library was trying to
6190 * perform last. Probably not very usefull. */
6191SSL_rstate_string
6192SSL_rstate_string_long
6193
6194SSL_get_peer_certificate
6195
6196SSL_SESSION_new
6197SSL_SESSION_print_fp
6198SSL_SESSION_print
6199SSL_SESSION_free
6200i2d_SSL_SESSION
6201d2i_SSL_SESSION
6202
6203SSL_get_time
6204SSL_set_time
6205SSL_get_timeout
6206SSL_set_timeout
6207SSL_copy_session_id
6208SSL_set_session
6209SSL_CTX_add_session
6210SSL_CTX_remove_session
6211SSL_CTX_flush_sessions
6212
6213BIO_f_ssl
6214
6215/* used to hold information as to why a certificate verification failed */
6216SSL_set_verify_result
6217SSL_get_verify_result
6218
6219/* can be used by the application to associate data with an SSL structure.
6220 * It needs to be 'free()ed' by the application */
6221SSL_set_app_data
6222SSL_get_app_data
6223
6224/* The following all set values that are kept in the SSL_CTX but
6225 * are used as the default values when an SSL session is created.
6226 * They are over writen by the relevent SSL_xxxx functions */
6227
6228/* SSL_set_verify */
6229void SSL_CTX_set_default_verify
6230
6231/* This callback, if set, totaly overrides the normal SSLeay verification
6232 * functions and should return 1 on sucesss and 0 on failure */
6233void SSL_CTX_set_cert_verify_callback
6234
6235/* The following are the same as the equivilent SSL_xxx functions.
6236 * Only one copy of this information is kept and if a particular
6237 * SSL structure has a local override, it is totally separate structure.
6238 */
6239int SSL_CTX_use_RSAPrivateKey
6240int SSL_CTX_use_RSAPrivateKey_ASN1
6241int SSL_CTX_use_RSAPrivateKey_file
6242int SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey
6243int SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_ASN1
6244int SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file
6245int SSL_CTX_use_certificate
6246int SSL_CTX_use_certificate_ASN1
6247int SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file
6248
6249
6250==== ssl_ctx.doc ========================================================
6251
6252This is now a bit dated, quite a few of the SSL_ functions could be
6253SSL_CTX_ functions. I will update this in the future. 30 Aug 1996
6254
6255From eay@orb.mincom.oz.au Mon Dec 11 21:37:08 1995
6256Received: by orb.mincom.oz.au id AA00696
6257 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eay); Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:37:08 +1000
6258Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:37:08 +1000 (EST)
6259From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
6260X-Sender: eay@orb
6261To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
6262Cc: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
6263Subject: Re: PEM_readX509 oesn't seem to be working
6264In-Reply-To: <199512110102.RAA12521@infinity.c2.org>
6265Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951211112115.28608D-100000@orb>
6266Mime-Version: 1.0
6267Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
6268Status: RO
6269X-Status:
6270
6271On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, sameer wrote:
6272> OK, that's solved. I've found out that it is saying "no
6273> certificate set" in SSL_accept because s->conn == NULL
6274> so there is some place I need to initialize s->conn that I am
6275> not initializing it.
6276
6277The full order of things for a server should be.
6278
6279ctx=SSL_CTX_new();
6280
6281/* The next line should not really be using ctx->cert but I'll leave it
6282 * this way right now... I don't want a X509_ routine to know about an SSL
6283 * structure, there should be an SSL_load_verify_locations... hmm, I may
6284 * add it tonight.
6285 */
6286X509_load_verify_locations(ctx->cert,CAfile,CApath);
6287
6288/* Ok now for each new connection we do the following */
6289con=SSL_new(ctx);
6290SSL_set_fd(con,s);
6291SSL_set_verify(con,verify,verify_callback);
6292
6293/* set the certificate and private key to use. */
6294SSL_use_certificate_ASN1(con,X509_certificate);
6295SSL_use_RSAPrivateKey_ASN1(con,RSA_private_key);
6296
6297SSL_accept(con);
6298
6299SSL_read(con)/SSL_write(con);
6300
6301There is a bit more than that but that is basically the structure.
6302
6303Create a context and specify where to lookup certificates.
6304
6305foreach connection
6306 {
6307 create a SSL structure
6308 set the certificate and private key
6309 do a SSL_accept
6310
6311 we should now be ok
6312 }
6313
6314eric
6315--
6316Eric Young | Signature removed since it was generating
6317AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | more followups than the message contents :-)
6318
6319
6320
6321==== ssleay.doc ========================================================
6322
6323SSLeay: a cryptographic kitchen sink.
6324
63251st December 1995
6326Way back at the start of April 1995, I was looking for a mindless
6327programming project. A friend of mine (Tim Hudson) said "why don't you do SSL,
6328it has DES encryption in it and I would not mind using it in a SSL telnet".
6329While it was true I had written a DES library in previous years, litle
6330did I know what an expansive task SSL would turn into.
6331
6332First of all, the SSL protocol contains DES encryption. Well and good. My
6333DES library was fast and portable. It also contained the RSA's RC4 stream
6334cipher. Again, not a problem, some-one had just posted to sci.crypt
6335something that was claimed to be RC4. It also contained IDEA, I had the
6336specifications, not a problem to implement. MD5, an RFC, trivial, at most
6337I could spend a week or so trying to see if I could speed up the
6338implementation. All in all a nice set of ciphers.
6339Then the first 'expantion of the scope', RSA public key
6340encryption. Since I did not knowing a thing about public key encryption
6341or number theory, this appeared quite a daunting task. Just writing a
6342big number library would be problomatic in itself, let alone making it fast.
6343At this point the scope of 'implementing SSL' expands eponentialy.
6344First of all, the RSA private keys were being kept in ASN.1 format.
6345Thankfully the RSA PKCS series of documents explains this format. So I now
6346needed to be able to encode and decode arbitary ASN.1 objects. The Public
6347keys were embeded in X509 certificates. Hmm... these are not only
6348ASN.1 objects but they make up a heirachy of authentication. To
6349authenticate a X509 certificate one needs to retrieve it's issuers
6350certificate etc etc. Hmm..., so I also need to implement some kind
6351of certificate management software. I would also have to implement
6352software to authenticate certificates. At this point the support code made
6353the SSL part of my library look quite small.
6354Around this time, the first version of SSLeay was released.
6355
6356Ah, but here was the problem, I was not happy with the code so far. As may
6357have become obvious, I had been treating all of this as a learning
6358exersize, so I have completely written the library myself. As such, due
6359to the way it had grown like a fungus, much of the library was not
6360'elagent' or neat. There were global and static variables all over the
6361place, the SSL part did not even handle non-blocking IO.
6362The Great rewrite began.
6363
6364As of this point in time, the 'Great rewrite' has almost finished. So what
6365follows is an approximate list of what is actually SSLeay 0.5.0
6366
6367/********* This needs to be updated for 0.6.0+ *************/
6368
6369---
6370The library contains the following routines. Please note that most of these
6371functions are not specfic for SSL or any other particular cipher
6372implementation. I have tried to make all the routines as general purpose
6373as possible. So you should not think of this library as an SSL
6374implemtation, but rather as a library of cryptographic functions
6375that also contains SSL. I refer to each of these function groupings as
6376libraries since they are often capable of functioning as independant
6377libraries
6378
6379First up, the general ciphers and message digests supported by the library.
6380
6381MD2 rfc???, a standard 'by parts' interface to this algorithm.
6382MD5 rfc???, the same type of interface as for the MD2 library except a
6383 different algorithm.
6384SHA THe Secure Hash Algorithm. Again the same type of interface as
6385 MD2/MD5 except the digest is 20 bytes.
6386SHA1 The 'revised' version of SHA. Just about identical to SHA except
6387 for one tweak of an inner loop.
6388DES This is my libdes library that has been floating around for the last
6389 few years. It has been enhanced for no other reason than completeness.
6390 It now supports ecb, cbc, cfb, ofb, cfb64, ofb64 in normal mode and
6391 triple DES modes of ecb, cbc, cfb64 and ofb64. cfb64 and ofb64 are
6392 functional interfaces to the 64 bit modes of cfb and ofb used in
6393 such a way thay they function as single character interfaces.
6394RC4 The RSA Inc. stream cipher.
6395RC2 The RSA Inc. block cipher.
6396IDEA An implmentation of the IDEA cipher, the library supports ecb, cbc,
6397 cfb64 and ofb64 modes of operation.
6398
6399Now all the above mentioned ciphers and digests libraries support high
6400speed, minimal 'crap in the way' type interfaces. For fastest and
6401lowest level access, these routines should be used directly.
6402
6403Now there was also the matter of public key crypto systems. These are
6404based on large integer arithmatic.
6405
6406BN This is my large integer library. It supports all the normal
6407 arithmentic operations. It uses malloc extensivly and as such has
6408 no limits of the size of the numbers being manipulated. If you
6409 wish to use 4000 bit RSA moduli, these routines will handle it.
6410 This library also contains routines to 'generate' prime numbers and
6411 to test for primality. The RSA and DH libraries sit on top of this
6412 library. As of this point in time, I don't support SHA, but
6413 when I do add it, it will just sit on top of the routines contained
6414 in this library.
6415RSA This implements the RSA public key algorithm. It also contains
6416 routines that will generate a new private/public key pair.
6417 All the RSA functions conform to the PKCS#1 standard.
6418DH This is an implementation of the
6419 Diffie-Hellman protocol. There are all the require routines for
6420 the protocol, plus extra routines that can be used to generate a
6421 strong prime for use with a specified generator. While this last
6422 routine is not generally required by applications implementing DH,
6423 It is present for completeness and because I thing it is much
6424 better to be able to 'generate' your own 'magic' numbers as oposed
6425 to using numbers suplied by others. I conform to the PKCS#3
6426 standard where required.
6427
6428You may have noticed the preceeding section mentions the 'generation' of
6429prime numbers. Now this requries the use of 'random numbers'.
6430
6431RAND This psuedo-random number library is based on MD5 at it's core
6432 and a large internal state (2k bytes). Once you have entered enough
6433 seed data into this random number algorithm I don't feel
6434 you will ever need to worry about it generating predictable output.
6435 Due to the way I am writing a portable library, I have left the
6436 issue of how to get good initial random seed data upto the
6437 application but I do have support routines for saving and loading a
6438 persistant random number state for use between program runs.
6439
6440Now to make all these ciphers easier to use, a higher level
6441interface was required. In this form, the same function would be used to
6442encrypt 'by parts', via any one of the above mentioned ciphers.
6443
6444EVP The Digital EnVeloPe library is quite large. At it's core are
6445 function to perform encryption and decryption by parts while using
6446 an initial parameter to specify which of the 17 different ciphers
6447 or 4 different message digests to use. On top of these are implmented
6448 the digital signature functions, sign, verify, seal and open.
6449 Base64 encoding of binary data is also done in this library.
6450
6451PEM rfc???? describe the format for Privacy Enhanced eMail.
6452 As part of this standard, methods of encoding digital enveloped
6453 data is an ascii format are defined. As such, I use a form of these
6454 to encode enveloped data. While at this point in time full support
6455 for PEM has not been built into the library, a minimal subset of
6456 the secret key and Base64 encoding is present. These reoutines are
6457 mostly used to Ascii encode binary data with a 'type' associated
6458 with it and perhaps details of private key encryption used to
6459 encrypt the data.
6460
6461PKCS7 This is another Digital Envelope encoding standard which uses ASN.1
6462 to encode the data. At this point in time, while there are some
6463 routines to encode and decode this binary format, full support is
6464 not present.
6465
6466As Mentioned, above, there are several different ways to encode
6467data structures.
6468
6469ASN1 This library is more a set of primatives used to encode the packing
6470 and unpacking of data structures. It is used by the X509
6471 certificate standard and by the PKCS standards which are used by
6472 this library. It also contains routines for duplicating and signing
6473 the structures asocisated with X509.
6474
6475X509 The X509 library contains routines for packing and unpacking,
6476 verifying and just about every thing else you would want to do with
6477 X509 certificates.
6478
6479PKCS7 PKCS-7 is a standard for encoding digital envelope data
6480 structures. At this point in time the routines will load and save
6481 DER forms of these structees. They need to be re-worked to support
6482 the BER form which is the normal way PKCS-7 is encoded. If the
6483 previous 2 sentances don't make much sense, don't worry, this
6484 library is not used by this version of SSLeay anyway.
6485
6486OBJ ASN.1 uses 'object identifiers' to identify objects. A set of
6487 functions were requred to translate from ASN.1 to an intenger, to a
6488 character string. This library provieds these translations
6489
6490Now I mentioned an X509 library. X509 specified a hieachy of certificates
6491which needs to be traversed to authenticate particular certificates.
6492
6493METH This library is used to push 'methods' of retrieving certificates
6494 into the library. There are some supplied 'methods' with SSLeay
6495 but applications can add new methods if they so desire.
6496 This library has not been finished and is not being used in this
6497 version.
6498
6499Now all the above are required for use in the initial point of this project.
6500
6501SSL The SSL protocol. This is a full implmentation of SSL v 2. It
6502 support both server and client authentication. SSL v 3 support
6503 will be added when the SSL v 3 specification is released in it's
6504 final form.
6505
6506Now quite a few of the above mentioned libraries rely on a few 'complex'
6507data structures. For each of these I have a library.
6508
6509Lhash This is a hash table library which is used extensivly.
6510
6511STACK An implemetation of a Stack data structure.
6512
6513BUF A simple character array structure that also support a function to
6514 check that the array is greater that a certain size, if it is not,
6515 it is realloced so that is it.
6516
6517TXT_DB A simple memory based text file data base. The application can specify
6518 unique indexes that will be enforced at update time.
6519
6520CONF Most of the programs written for this library require a configuration
6521 file. Instead of letting programs constantly re-implment this
6522 subsystem, the CONF library provides a consistant and flexable
6523 interface to not only configuration files but also environment
6524 variables.
6525
6526But what about when something goes wrong?
6527The one advantage (and perhaps disadvantage) of all of these
6528functions being in one library was the ability to implement a
6529single error reporting system.
6530
6531ERR This library is used to report errors. The error system records
6532 library number, function number (in the library) and reason
6533 number. Multiple errors can be reported so that an 'error' trace
6534 is created. The errors can be printed in numeric or textual form.
6535
6536
6537==== ssluse.doc ========================================================
6538
6539We have an SSL_CTX which contains global information for lots of
6540SSL connections. The session-id cache and the certificate verificate cache.
6541It also contains default values for use when certificates are used.
6542
6543SSL_CTX
6544 default cipher list
6545 session-id cache
6546 certificate cache
6547 default session-id timeout period
6548 New session-id callback
6549 Required session-id callback
6550 session-id stats
6551 Informational callback
6552 Callback that is set, overrides the SSLeay X509 certificate
6553 verification
6554 The default Certificate/Private Key pair
6555 Default read ahead mode.
6556 Default verify mode and verify callback. These are not used
6557 if the over ride callback mentioned above is used.
6558
6559Each SSL can have the following defined for it before a connection is made.
6560
6561Certificate
6562Private key
6563Ciphers to use
6564Certificate verify mode and callback
6565IO object to use in the comunication.
6566Some 'read-ahead' mode information.
6567A previous session-id to re-use.
6568
6569A connection is made by using SSL_connect or SSL_accept.
6570When non-blocking IO is being used, there are functions that can be used
6571to determin where and why the SSL_connect or SSL_accept did not complete.
6572This information can be used to recall the functions when the 'error'
6573condition has dissapeared.
6574
6575After the connection has been made, information can be retrived about the
6576SSL session and the session-id values that have been decided apon.
6577The 'peer' certificate can be retrieved.
6578
6579The session-id values include
6580'start time'
6581'timeout length'
6582
6583
6584
6585==== stack.doc ========================================================
6586
6587The stack data structure is used to store an ordered list of objects.
6588It is basically misnamed to call it a stack but it can function that way
6589and that is what I originally used it for. Due to the way element
6590pointers are kept in a malloc()ed array, the most efficient way to use this
6591structure is to add and delete elements from the end via sk_pop() and
6592sk_push(). If you wish to do 'lookups' sk_find() is quite efficient since
6593it will sort the stack (if required) and then do a binary search to lookup
6594the requested item. This sorting occurs automatically so just sk_push()
6595elements on the stack and don't worry about the order. Do remember that if
6596you do a sk_find(), the order of the elements will change.
6597
6598You should never need to 'touch' this structure directly.
6599typedef struct stack_st
6600 {
6601 unsigned int num;
6602 char **data;
6603 int sorted;
6604
6605 unsigned int num_alloc;
6606 int (*comp)();
6607 } STACK;
6608
6609'num' holds the number of elements in the stack, 'data' is the array of
6610elements. 'sorted' is 1 is the list has been sorted, 0 if not.
6611
6612num_alloc is the number of 'nodes' allocated in 'data'. When num becomes
6613larger than num_alloc, data is realloced to a larger size.
6614If 'comp' is set, it is a function that is used to compare 2 of the items
6615in the stack. The function should return -1, 0 or 1, depending on the
6616ordering.
6617
6618#define sk_num(sk) ((sk)->num)
6619#define sk_value(sk,n) ((sk)->data[n])
6620
6621These 2 macros should be used to access the number of elements in the
6622'stack' and to access a pointer to one of the values.
6623
6624STACK *sk_new(int (*c)());
6625 This creates a new stack. If 'c', the comparison function, is not
6626specified, the various functions that operate on a sorted 'stack' will not
6627work (sk_find()). NULL is returned on failure.
6628
6629void sk_free(STACK *);
6630 This function free()'s a stack structure. The elements in the
6631stack will not be freed so one should 'pop' and free all elements from the
6632stack before calling this function or call sk_pop_free() instead.
6633
6634void sk_pop_free(STACK *st; void (*func)());
6635 This function calls 'func' for each element on the stack, passing
6636the element as the argument. sk_free() is then called to free the 'stack'
6637structure.
6638
6639int sk_insert(STACK *sk,char *data,int where);
6640 This function inserts 'data' into stack 'sk' at location 'where'.
6641If 'where' is larger that the number of elements in the stack, the element
6642is put at the end. This function tends to be used by other 'stack'
6643functions. Returns 0 on failure, otherwise the number of elements in the
6644new stack.
6645
6646char *sk_delete(STACK *st,int loc);
6647 Remove the item a location 'loc' from the stack and returns it.
6648Returns NULL if the 'loc' is out of range.
6649
6650char *sk_delete_ptr(STACK *st, char *p);
6651 If the data item pointed to by 'p' is in the stack, it is deleted
6652from the stack and returned. NULL is returned if the element is not in the
6653stack.
6654
6655int sk_find(STACK *st,char *data);
6656 Returns the location that contains a value that is equal to
6657the 'data' item. If the comparison function was not set, this function
6658does a linear search. This function actually qsort()s the stack if it is not
6659in order and then uses bsearch() to do the initial search. If the
6660search fails,, -1 is returned. For mutliple items with the same
6661value, the index of the first in the array is returned.
6662
6663int sk_push(STACK *st,char *data);
6664 Append 'data' to the stack. 0 is returned if there is a failure
6665(due to a malloc failure), else 1. This is
6666sk_insert(st,data,sk_num(st));
6667
6668int sk_unshift(STACK *st,char *data);
6669 Prepend 'data' to the front (location 0) of the stack. This is
6670sk_insert(st,data,0);
6671
6672char *sk_shift(STACK *st);
6673 Return and delete from the stack the first element in the stack.
6674This is sk_delete(st,0);
6675
6676char *sk_pop(STACK *st);
6677 Return and delete the last element on the stack. This is
6678sk_delete(st,sk_num(sk)-1);
6679
6680void sk_zero(STACK *st);
6681 Removes all items from the stack. It does not 'free'
6682pointers but is a quick way to clear a 'stack of references'.
6683
6684==== threads.doc ========================================================
6685
6686How to compile SSLeay for multi-threading.
6687
6688Well basically it is quite simple, set the compiler flags and build.
6689I have only really done much testing under Solaris and Windows NT.
6690If you library supports localtime_r() and gmtime_r() add,
6691-DTHREADS to the makefile parameters. You can probably survive with out
6692this define unless you are going to have multiple threads generating
6693certificates at once. It will not affect the SSL side of things.
6694
6695The approach I have taken to doing locking is to make the application provide
6696callbacks to perform locking and so that the SSLeay library can distinguish
6697between threads (for the error state).
6698
6699To have a look at an example program, 'cd mt; vi mttest.c'.
6700To build under solaris, sh solaris.sh, for Windows NT or Windows 95,
6701win32.bat
6702
6703This will build mttest which will fire up 10 threads that talk SSL
6704to each other 10 times.
6705To enable everything to work, the application needs to call
6706
6707CRYPTO_set_id_callback(id_function);
6708CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(locking_function);
6709
6710before any multithreading is started.
6711id_function does not need to be defined under Windows NT or 95, the
6712correct function will be called if it is not. Under unix, getpid()
6713is call if the id_callback is not defined, for solaris this is wrong
6714(since threads id's are not pid's) but under IRIX it is correct
6715(threads are just processes sharing the data segement).
6716
6717The locking_callback is used to perform locking by the SSLeay library.
6718eg.
6719
6720void solaris_locking_callback(mode,type,file,line)
6721int mode;
6722int type;
6723char *file;
6724int line;
6725 {
6726 if (mode & CRYPTO_LOCK)
6727 mutex_lock(&(lock_cs[type]));
6728 else
6729 mutex_unlock(&(lock_cs[type]));
6730 }
6731
6732Now in this case I have used mutexes instead of read/write locks, since they
6733are faster and there are not many read locks in SSLeay, you may as well
6734always use write locks. file and line are __FILE__ and __LINE__ from
6735the compile and can be usefull when debugging.
6736
6737Now as you can see, 'type' can be one of a range of values, these values are
6738defined in crypto/crypto.h
6739CRYPTO_get_lock_name(type) will return a text version of what the lock is.
6740There are CRYPTO_NUM_LOCKS locks required, so under solaris, the setup
6741for multi-threading can be
6742
6743static mutex_t lock_cs[CRYPTO_NUM_LOCKS];
6744
6745void thread_setup()
6746 {
6747 int i;
6748
6749 for (i=0; i<CRYPTO_NUM_LOCKS; i++)
6750 mutex_init(&(lock_cs[i]),USYNC_THREAD,NULL);
6751 CRYPTO_set_id_callback((unsigned long (*)())solaris_thread_id);
6752 CRYPTO_set_locking_callback((void (*)())solaris_locking_callback);
6753 }
6754
6755As a final note, under Windows NT or Windows 95, you have to be careful
6756not to mix the various threaded, unthreaded and debug libraries.
6757Normally if they are mixed incorrectly, mttest will crash just after printing
6758out some usage statistics at the end. This is because the
6759different system libraries use different malloc routines and if
6760data is malloc()ed inside crypt32.dll or ssl32.dll and then free()ed by a
6761different library malloc, things get very confused.
6762
6763The default SSLeay DLL builds use /MD, so if you use this on your
6764application, things will work as expected. If you use /MDd,
6765you will probably have to rebuild SSLeay using this flag.
6766I should modify util/mk1mf.pl so it does all this correctly, but
6767this has not been done yet.
6768
6769One last warning. Because locking overheads are actually quite large, the
6770statistics collected against the SSL_CTX for successfull connections etc
6771are not locked when updated. This does make it possible for these
6772values to be slightly lower than they should be, if you are
6773running multithreaded on a multi-processor box, but this does not really
6774matter much.
6775
6776
6777==== txt_db.doc ========================================================
6778
6779TXT_DB, a simple text based in memory database.
6780
6781It holds rows of ascii data, for which the only special character is '\0'.
6782The rows can be of an unlimited length.
6783
6784==== why.doc ========================================================
6785
6786This file is more of a note for other people who wish to understand why
6787the build environment is the way it is :-).
6788
6789The include files 'depend' as follows.
6790Each of
6791crypto/*/*.c includes crypto/cryptlib.h
6792ssl/*.c include ssl/ssl_locl.h
6793apps/*.c include apps/apps.h
6794crypto/cryptlib.h, ssl/ssl_locl.h and apps/apps.h
6795all include e_os.h which contains OS/environment specific information.
6796If you need to add something todo with a particular environment,
6797add it to this file. It is worth remembering that quite a few libraries,
6798like lhash, des, md, sha etc etc do not include crypto/cryptlib.h. This
6799is because these libraries should be 'independantly compilable' and so I
6800try to keep them this way.
6801e_os.h is not so much a part of SSLeay, as the placing in one spot all the
6802evil OS dependant muck.
6803
6804I wanted to automate as many things as possible. This includes
6805error number generation. A
6806make errors
6807will scan the source files for error codes, append them to the correct
6808header files, and generate the functions to print the text version
6809of the error numbers. So don't even think about adding error numbers by
6810hand, put them in the form
6811XXXerr(XXXX_F_XXXX,YYYY_R_YYYY);
6812on line and it will be automatically picked up my a make errors.
6813
6814In a similar vein, programs to be added into ssleay in the apps directory
6815just need to have an entry added to E_EXE in makefile.ssl and
6816everthing will work as expected. Don't edit progs.h by hand.
6817
6818make links re-generates the symbolic links that are used. The reason why
6819I keep everything in its own directory, and don't put all the
6820test programs and header files in 'test' and 'include' is because I want
6821to keep the 'sub-libraries' independant. I still 'pull' out
6822indervidual libraries for use in specific projects where the code is
6823required. I have used the 'lhash' library in just about every software
6824project I have worked on :-).
6825
6826make depend generates dependancies and
6827make dclean removes them.
6828
6829You will notice that I use perl quite a bit when I could be using 'sed'.
6830The reason I decided to do this was to just stick to one 'extra' program.
6831For Windows NT, I have perl and no sed.
6832
6833The util/mk1mf.pl program can be used to generate a single makefile.
6834I use this because makefiles under Microsoft are horrific.
6835Each C compiler seems to have different linker formats, which have
6836to be used because the retarted C compilers explode when you do
6837cl -o file *.o.
6838
6839Now some would argue that I should just use the single makefile. I don't
6840like it during develoment for 2 reasons. First, the actuall make
6841command takes a long time. For my current setup, if I'm in
6842crypto/bn and I type make, only the crypto/bn directory gets rebuilt,
6843which is nice when you are modifying prototypes in bn.h which
6844half the SSLeay depends on. The second is that to add a new souce file
6845I just plonk it in at the required spot in the local makefile. This
6846then alows me to keep things local, I don't need to modify a 'global'
6847tables (the make for unix, the make for NT, the make for w31...).
6848When I am ripping apart a library structure, it is nice to only
6849have to worry about one directory :-).
6850
6851Having said all this, for the hell of it I put together 2 files that
6852#include all the souce code (generated by doing a ls */*.o after a build).
6853crypto.c takes only 30 seconds to build under NT and 2 minutes under linux
6854for my pentium100. Much faster that the normal build :-).
6855Again, the problem is that when using libraries, every program linked
6856to libcrypto.a would suddenly get 330k of library when it may only need
68571k. This technique does look like a nice way to do shared libraries though.
6858
6859Oh yes, as a final note, to 'build' a distribution, I just type
6860make dist.
6861This cleans and packages everything. The directory needs to be called
6862SSLeay since the make does a 'cd ..' and renames and tars things up.
6863
6864==== req.1 ========================================================
6865
6866The 'req' command is used to manipulate and deal with pkcs#10
6867certificate requests.
6868
6869It's default mode of operation is to load a certificate and then
6870write it out again.
6871
6872By default the 'req' is read from stdin in 'PEM' format.
6873The -inform option can be used to specify 'pem' format or 'der'
6874format. PEM format is the base64 encoding of the DER format.
6875
6876By default 'req' then writes the request back out. -outform can be used
6877to indicate the desired output format, be it 'pem' or 'der'.
6878
6879To specify an input file, use the '-in' option and the '-out' option
6880can be used to specify the output file.
6881
6882If you wish to perform a command and not output the certificate
6883request afterwards, use the '-noout' option.
6884
6885When a certificate is loaded, it can be printed in a human readable
6886ascii format via the '-text' option.
6887
6888To check that the signature on a certificate request is correct, use
6889the '-verify' option to make sure that the private key contained in the
6890certificate request corresponds to the signature.
6891
6892Besides the default mode, there is also the 'generate a certificate
6893request' mode. There are several flags that trigger this mode.
6894
6895-new will generate a new RSA key (if required) and then prompts
6896the user for details for the certificate request.
6897-newkey has an argument that is the number of bits to make the new
6898key. This function also triggers '-new'.
6899
6900The '-new' option can have a key to use specified instead of having to
6901load one, '-key' is used to specify the file containg the key.
6902-keyform can be used to specify the format of the key. Only
6903'pem' and 'der' formats are supported, later, 'netscape' format may be added.
6904
6905Finally there is the '-x509' options which makes req output a self
6906signed x509 certificate instead of a certificate request.
6907
6908Now as you may have noticed, there are lots of default options that
6909cannot be specified via the command line. They are held in a 'template'
6910or 'configuration file'. The -config option specifies which configuration
6911file to use. See conf.doc for details on the syntax of this file.
6912
6913The req command uses the 'req' section of the config file.
6914
6915---
6916# The following variables are defined. For this example I will populate
6917# the various values
6918[ req ]
6919default_bits = 512 # default number of bits to use.
6920default_keyfile = testkey.pem # Where to write the generated keyfile
6921 # if not specified.
6922distinguished_name= req_dn # The section that contains the
6923 # information about which 'object' we
6924 # want to put in the DN.
6925attributes = req_attr # The objects we want for the
6926 # attributes field.
6927encrypt_rsa_key = no # Should we encrypt newly generated
6928 # keys. I strongly recommend 'yes'.
6929
6930# The distinguished name section. For the following entries, the
6931# object names must exist in the SSLeay header file objects.h. If they
6932# do not, they will be silently ignored. The entries have the following
6933# format.
6934# <object_name> => string to prompt with
6935# <object_name>_default => default value for people
6936# <object_name>_value => Automatically use this value for this field.
6937# <object_name>_min => minimum number of characters for data (def. 0)
6938# <object_name>_max => maximum number of characters for data (def. inf.)
6939# All of these entries are optional except for the first one.
6940[ req_dn ]
6941countryName = Country Name (2 letter code)
6942countryName_default = AU
6943
6944stateOrProvinceName = State or Province Name (full name)
6945stateOrProvinceName_default = Queensland
6946
6947localityName = Locality Name (eg, city)
6948
6949organizationName = Organization Name (eg, company)
6950organizationName_default = Mincom Pty Ltd
6951
6952organizationalUnitName = Organizational Unit Name (eg, section)
6953organizationalUnitName_default = MTR
6954
6955commonName = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
6956commonName_max = 64
6957
6958emailAddress = Email Address
6959emailAddress_max = 40
6960
6961# The next section is the attributes section. This is exactly the
6962# same as for the previous section except that the resulting objects are
6963# put in the attributes field.
6964[ req_attr ]
6965challengePassword = A challenge password
6966challengePassword_min = 4
6967challengePassword_max = 20
6968
6969unstructuredName = An optional company name
6970
6971----
6972Also note that the order that attributes appear in this file is the
6973order they will be put into the distinguished name.
6974
6975Once this request has been generated, it can be sent to a CA for
6976certifying.
6977
6978----
6979A few quick examples....
6980
6981To generate a new request and a new key
6982req -new
6983
6984To generate a new request and a 1058 bit key
6985req -newkey 1058
6986
6987To generate a new request using a pre-existing key
6988req -new -key key.pem
6989
6990To generate a self signed x509 certificate from a certificate
6991request using a supplied key, and we want to see the text form of the
6992output certificate (which we will put in the file selfSign.pem
6993req -x509 -in req.pem -key key.pem -text -out selfSign.pem
6994
6995Verify that the signature is correct on a certificate request.
6996req -verify -in req.pem
6997
6998Verify that the signature was made using a specified public key.
6999req -verify -in req.pem -key key.pem
7000
7001Print the contents of a certificate request
7002req -text -in req.pem
7003
7004==== danger ========================================================
7005
7006If you specify a SSLv2 cipher, and the mode is SSLv23 and the server
7007can talk SSLv3, it will claim there is no cipher since you should be
7008using SSLv3.
7009
7010When tracing debug stuff, remember BIO_s_socket() is different to
7011BIO_s_connect().
7012
7013BSD/OS assember is not working
7014