ECDSA_SIG_new3ssl

Usage

 #include <openssl/ecdsa.h>
 ECDSA_SIG *ECDSA_SIG_new(void);
 void ECDSA_SIG_free(ECDSA_SIG *sig);
 void ECDSA_SIG_get0(const ECDSA_SIG *sig, const BIGNUM **pr, const BIGNUM **ps);
 const BIGNUM *ECDSA_SIG_get0_r(const ECDSA_SIG *sig);
 const BIGNUM *ECDSA_SIG_get0_s(const ECDSA_SIG *sig);
 int ECDSA_SIG_set0(ECDSA_SIG *sig, BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *s);

Overview

ECDSA_SIG is an opaque structure consisting of two BIGNUMs for the r and s value of an Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) signature (see FIPS186-4 or X9.62). The ECDSA_SIG object was mainly used by the deprecated low level functions described in ECDSA_sign(3), it is still required in order to be able to set or get the values of r and s into or from a signature. This is mainly used for testing purposes as shown in the "EXAMPLES".

ECDSA_SIG_new() allocates an empty ECDSA_SIG structure. Note: before OpenSSL 1.1.0, the r and s components were initialised.

ECDSA_SIG_free() frees the ECDSA_SIG structure sig. If the argument is NULL, nothing is done.

ECDSA_SIG_get0() returns internal pointers the r and s values contained in sig and stores them in *pr and *ps, respectively. The pointer pr or ps can be NULL, in which case the corresponding value is not returned.

The values r, s can also be retrieved separately by the corresponding function ECDSA_SIG_get0_r() and ECDSA_SIG_get0_s(), respectively.

Non-NULL r and s values can be set on the sig by calling ECDSA_SIG_set0(). Calling this function transfers the memory management of the values to the ECDSA_SIG object, and therefore the values that have been passed in should not be freed by the caller.

See i2d_ECDSA_SIG(3) and d2i_ECDSA_SIG(3) for information about encoding and decoding ECDSA signatures to/from DER.

Return values

ECDSA_SIG_new() returns NULL if the allocation fails.

ECDSA_SIG_set0() returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.

ECDSA_SIG_get0_r() and ECDSA_SIG_get0_s() return the corresponding value, or NULL if it is unset.

Examples

Extract signature r and s values from a ECDSA signature of size signaturelen:

 ECDSA_SIG *obj;
 const BIGNUM *r, *s;
 /* Load a signature into the ECDSA_SIG object */
 obj = d2i_ECDSA_SIG(NULL, &signature, signaturelen);
 if (obj == NULL)
     /* error */
 r = ECDSA_SIG_get0_r(obj);
 s = ECDSA_SIG_get0_s(obj);
 if (r == NULL || s == NULL)
     /* error */
 /* Use BN_bn2binpad() here to convert to r and s into byte arrays */
 /*
  * Do not try to access I<r> or I<s> after calling ECDSA_SIG_free(),
  * as they are both freed by this call.
  */
 ECDSA_SIG_free(obj);

Convert r and s byte arrays into an ECDSA_SIG signature of size signaturelen:

 ECDSA_SIG *obj = NULL;
 unsigned char *signature = NULL;
 size_t signaturelen;
 BIGNUM *rbn = NULL, *sbn = NULL;
 obj = ECDSA_SIG_new();
 if (obj == NULL)
     /* error */
 rbn = BN_bin2bn(r, rlen, NULL);
 sbn = BN_bin2bn(s, slen, NULL);
 if (rbn == NULL || sbn == NULL)
     /* error */
 if (!ECDSA_SIG_set0(obj, rbn, sbn))
     /* error */
 /* Set these to NULL since they are now owned by obj */
 rbn = sbn = NULL;
 signaturelen = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(obj, &signature);
 if (signaturelen <= 0)
     /* error */
 /*
  * This signature could now be passed to L<EVP_DigestVerify(3)>
  * or L<EVP_DigestVerifyFinal(3)>
  */
 BN_free(rbn);
 BN_free(sbn);
 OPENSSL_free(signature);
 ECDSA_SIG_free(obj);