The justification for RAND_pseudo_bytes is somewhat dubious, and the reality
is that it is frequently being misused. RAND_bytes and RAND_pseudo_bytes in
the default implementation both end up calling ssleay_rand_bytes. Both may
return -1 in an error condition. If there is insufficient entropy then
both will return 0, but RAND_bytes will additionally add an error to the
error queue. They both return 1 on success.
Therefore the fundamental difference between the two is that one will add an
error to the error queue with insufficient entory whilst the other will not.
Frequently there are constructions of this form:
if(RAND_pseudo_bytes(...) <= 1)
goto err;
In the above form insufficient entropy is treated as an error anyway, so
RAND_bytes is probably the better form to use.
This form is also seen:
if(!RAND_pseudo_bytes(...))
goto err;
This is technically not correct at all since a -1 return value is
incorrectly handled - but this form will also treat insufficient entropy as
an error.
Within libssl it is required that you have correctly seeded your entropy
pool and so there seems little benefit in using RAND_pseudo_bytes.
Similarly in libcrypto many operations also require a correctly seeded
entropy pool and so in most interesting cases you would be better off
using RAND_bytes anyway. There is a significant risk of RAND_pseudo_bytes
being incorrectly used in scenarios where security can be compromised by
insufficient entropy.
If you are not using the default implementation, then most engines use the
same function to implement RAND_bytes and RAND_pseudo_bytes in any case.
Given its misuse, limited benefit, and potential to compromise security,
RAND_pseudo_bytes has been deprecated.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Start ensuring all OpenSSL "free" routines allow NULL, and remove
any if check before calling them.
This gets DH_free, DSA_free, RSA_free
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Start ensuring all OpenSSL "free" routines allow NULL, and remove
any if check before calling them.
This gets ASN1_OBJECT_free and ASN1_STRING_free.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Updates to include SHA224, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512. In particular note
the restriction on setting md to NULL with regards to thread safety.
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Specifically, an ASN.1 NumericString in the certificate CN will fail UTF-8 conversion
and result in a negative return value, which the "x509 -checkhost" command-line option
incorrectly interpreted as success.
Also update X509_check_host docs to reflect reality.
Thanks to Sean Burford (Google) for reporting this issue.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Remove support for SHA0 and DSS0 (they were broken), and remove
the ability to attempt to build without SHA (it didn't work).
For simplicity, remove the option of not building various SHA algorithms;
you could argue that SHA_224/256/384/512 should be kept, since they're
like crypto algorithms, but I decided to go the other way.
So these options are gone:
GENUINE_DSA OPENSSL_NO_SHA0
OPENSSL_NO_SHA OPENSSL_NO_SHA1
OPENSSL_NO_SHA224 OPENSSL_NO_SHA256
OPENSSL_NO_SHA384 OPENSSL_NO_SHA512
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Per discussion: should not exit. Should not print to stderr.
Errors are ignored. Updated doc to reflect that, and the fact
that this function is to be avoided.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
Show only the #define, not the values, in BIO_f_buffer. Data
abstraction and we can remove a "see also" entry.
Remove internal forward reference to NOTES in EVP_EncryptInit; just
say "see below" as we do in the other pages.
Add missing (3) in pem.pod so the L<> entry is consistent.
Fix entry to point to the "master" page, not the symlink'd one.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
MS Server gated cryptography is obsolete and dates from the time of export
restrictions on strong encryption and is only used by ancient versions of
MSIE.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
In EVP_EncryptInit remove duplicate mention of EVP_idea_cbc()
In EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl.pod remove EVP_PKEY_get_default_digest_nid
since it is documented elsewhere.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Fix CONF_load_modules to CONF_modules_load.
Document that it calls exit.
Advise against using it now.
Add an error print to stderr.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Out is the buffer which needs to contain at least inl + cipher_block_size - 1 bytes. Outl
is just an int*.
Reviewed-by: Emilia Käsper <emilia@openssl.org>
If data is NULL, return the size needed to hold the
derived key. No other API to do this, so document
the behavior.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
The original RT request included a patch. By the time
we got around to doing it, however, the callback scheme
had changed. So I wrote a new function RSA_check_key_ex()
that uses the BN_GENCB callback. But thanks very much
to Vinet Sharma <vineet.sharma@gmail.com> for the
initial implementation.
Reviewed-by: Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
i2d_re_X509_tbs re-encodes the TBS portion of the certificate.
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Dr Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
Andy found an additional typo "can be can be".
Now I have that silly "Que sera sera" song stuck in my head.
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
RT1665: aes documentation.
Paul Green wrote a nice aes.pod file.
But we now encourage the EVP interface.
So I took his RT item and used it as impetus to add
the AES modes to EVP_EncryptInit.pod
I also noticed that rc4.pod has spurious references to some other
cipher pages, so I removed them.
RT2300: Clean up MD history (merged into RT1665)
Put HISTORY section only in EVP_DigestInit.pod. Also add words
to discourage use of older cipher-specific API, and remove SEE ALSO
links that point to them.
Make sure digest pages have a NOTE that says use EVP_DigestInit.
Review feedback:
More cleanup in EVP_EncryptInit.pod
Fixed SEE ALSO links in ripemd160.pod, sha.pod, mdc2.pod, blowfish.pod,
rc4.d, and des.pod. Re-order sections in des.pod for consistency
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
When d2i_ECPrivateKey reads a private key with a missing (optional) public key,
generate one automatically from the group and private key.
Reviewed-by: Dr Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
The EXAMPLE that used FILE and RC2 doesn't compile due to a
few minor errors. Tweak to use IDEA and AES-128. Remove
examples about RC2 and RC5.
Reviewed-by: Emilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>
In two OpenSSL manual pages, in the NAME section, the last word of the
name list is followed by a stray trailing comma. While this may seem
minor, it is worth fixing because it may confuse some makewhatis(8)
implementations.
While here, also add the missing word "size" to the one line
description in SSL_CTX_set_max_cert_list(3).
Reviewed by: Dr Stephen Henson <shenson@drh-consultancy.co.uk>
