openssl/doc/man3/X509_sign.pod
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre fc5ecaddd0 man: harmonize the various formulations in the HISTORY sections
While stereotyped repetitions are frowned upon in literature, they
serve a useful purpose in manual pages, because it is easier for
the user to find certain information if it is always presented in
the same way. For that reason, this commit harmonizes the varying
formulations in the HISTORY section about which functions, flags,
etc. were added in which OpenSSL version.

It also attempts to make the pod files more grep friendly by
avoiding to insert line breaks between the symbol names and the
corresponding version number in which they were introduced
(wherever possible). Some punctuation and typographical errors
were fixed on the way.

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7854)
2018-12-15 22:27:26 +01:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx, X509_verify, X509_REQ_sign, X509_REQ_sign_ctx,
X509_REQ_verify, X509_CRL_sign, X509_CRL_sign_ctx, X509_CRL_verify -
sign or verify certificate, certificate request or CRL signature
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/x509.h>
int X509_sign(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
int X509_sign_ctx(X509 *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
int X509_verify(X509 *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
int X509_REQ_sign_ctx(X509_REQ *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
int X509_REQ_verify(X509_REQ *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
int X509_CRL_sign_ctx(X509_CRL *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
int X509_CRL_verify(X509_CRL *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
X509_sign() signs certificate B<x> using private key B<pkey> and message
digest B<md> and sets the signature in B<x>. X509_sign_ctx() also signs
certificate B<x> but uses the parameters contained in digest context B<ctx>.
X509_verify() verifies the signature of certificate B<x> using public key
B<pkey>. Only the signature is checked: no other checks (such as certificate
chain validity) are performed.
X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_verify(),
X509_CRL_sign(), X509_CRL_sign_ctx() and X509_CRL_verify() sign and verify
certificate requests and CRLs respectively.
=head1 NOTES
X509_sign_ctx() is used where the default parameters for the corresponding
public key and digest are not suitable. It can be used to sign keys using
RSA-PSS for example.
For efficiency reasons and to work around ASN.1 encoding issues the encoding
of the signed portion of a certificate, certificate request and CRL is cached
internally. If the signed portion of the structure is modified the encoding
is not always updated meaning a stale version is sometimes used. This is not
normally a problem because modifying the signed portion will invalidate the
signature and signing will always update the encoding.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
X509_sign(), X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(),
X509_CRL_sign() and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() return the size of the signature
in bytes for success and zero for failure.
X509_verify(), X509_REQ_verify() and X509_CRL_verify() return 1 if the
signature is valid and 0 if the signature check fails. If the signature
could not be checked at all because it was invalid or some other error
occurred then -1 is returned.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<d2i_X509(3)>,
L<ERR_get_error(3)>,
L<X509_CRL_get0_by_serial(3)>,
L<X509_get0_signature(3)>,
L<X509_get_ext_d2i(3)>,
L<X509_get_extension_flags(3)>,
L<X509_get_pubkey(3)>,
L<X509_get_subject_name(3)>,
L<X509_get_version(3)>,
L<X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(3)>,
L<X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_object(3)>,
L<X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(3)>,
L<X509_NAME_print_ex(3)>,
L<X509_new(3)>,
L<X509V3_get_d2i(3)>,
L<X509_verify_cert(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
The X509_sign(), X509_REQ_sign() and X509_CRL_sign() functions are
available in all versions of OpenSSL.
The X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx()
and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() functions were added OpenSSL 1.0.1.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2015-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
=cut