libressl-DSA_sign(3)

libressl-DSA_sign3

Dsa signatures

Usage

Crypto Library (libcrypto, -lcrypto)

#include <openssl/dsa.h>

int

DSA_sign(int type, const unsigned char *dgst, int len, unsigned char *sigret, unsigned int *siglen, DSA *dsa);

int

DSA_sign_setup(DSA *dsa, BN_CTX *ctx, BIGNUM **kinvp, BIGNUM **rp);

int

DSA_verify(int type, const unsigned char *dgst, int len, unsigned char *sigbuf, int siglen, DSA *dsa);

Overview

DSA_sign() computes a digital signature on the len byte message digest dgst using the private key dsa and places its ASN.1 DER encoding at sigret. The length of the signature is placed in *siglen. sigret must point to DSA_size(dsa) bytes of memory.

DSA_sign_setup() may be used to precompute part of the signing operation in case signature generation is time-critical. It expects dsa to contain DSA parameters. It places the precomputed values in newly allocated BIGNUMs at *kinvp and *rp, after freeing the old ones unless kinvp and rp are NULL. These values may be passed to DSA_sign() in dsa->kinv and dsa->r. ctx is a pre-allocated BN_CTX or NULL.

DSA_verify() verifies that the signature sigbuf of size siglen matches a given message digest dgst of size len. dsa is the signer's public key.

The type parameter is ignored.

Return values

DSA_sign() and DSA_sign_setup() return 1 on success or 0 on error. DSA_verify() returns 1 for a valid signature, 0 for an incorrect signature, and -1 on error. The error codes can be obtained by ERR_get_error(3).

Standards

US Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS 186 (Digital Signature Standard, DSS), ANSI X9.30

History

DSA_sign() and DSA_verify() first appeared in SSLeay 0.6.0. DSA_sign_setup() first appeared in SSLeay 0.8.0. All these functions have been available since OpenBSD 2.4.

From libressl 4.4.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.