openssl/doc/man7/EVP_KDF-PBKDF2.pod
Dimitri John Ledkov 6f08353a4b doc: EVP_KDF document the semantic meaning of output
Explicitely document what semantic meaning do various EVP_KDF
algorithms produce.

PBKDF2 produces cryptographic keys that are subject to cryptographic
security measures, for example as defined in NIST SP 800-132.

All other algorithms produce keying material, not subject to explicit
output length checks in any known standards.

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/25610)
2024-10-08 16:05:59 +02:00

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=head1 NAME
EVP_KDF-PBKDF2 - The PBKDF2 EVP_KDF implementation
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Support for computing the B<PBKDF2> password-based KDF through the B<EVP_KDF>
API.
The EVP_KDF-PBKDF2 algorithm implements the PBKDF2 password-based key
derivation function, as described in SP800-132; it derives a key from a password
using a salt and iteration count.
The output is considered to be a cryptographic key.
=head2 Identity
"PBKDF2" is the name for this implementation; it
can be used with the EVP_KDF_fetch() function.
=head2 Supported parameters
The supported parameters are:
=over 4
=item "pass" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_PASSWORD>) <octet string>
=item "salt" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_SALT>) <octet string>
=item "iter" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ITER>) <unsigned integer>
This parameter has a default value of 2048.
=item "properties" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_PROPERTIES>) <UTF8 string>
=item "digest" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_DIGEST>) <UTF8 string>
These parameters work as described in L<EVP_KDF(3)/PARAMETERS>.
=item "pkcs5" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_PKCS5>) <integer>
This parameter can be used to enable or disable SP800-132 compliance checks.
Setting the mode to 0 enables the compliance checks.
The checks performed are:
=over 4
=item - the iteration count is at least 1000.
=item - the salt length is at least 128 bits.
=item - the derived key length is at least 112 bits.
=back
The default provider uses a default mode of 1 for backwards compatibility,
and the FIPS provider uses a default mode of 0.
This option breaks FIPS compliance if it causes the approved "fips-indicator"
to return 0.
=item "fips-indicator" (B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_FIPS_APPROVED_INDICATOR>) <integer>
This option is used by the OpenSSL FIPS provider.
A getter that returns 1 if the operation is FIPS approved, or 0 otherwise.
This may be used after calling EVP_KDF_derive. It returns 0 if "pkcs5"
is set to 1 and the derived key length, salt length or iteration count test
fails.
=back
=head1 NOTES
A typical application of this algorithm is to derive keying material for an
encryption algorithm from a password in the "pass", a salt in "salt",
and an iteration count.
Increasing the "iter" parameter slows down the algorithm which makes it
harder for an attacker to perform a brute force attack using a large number
of candidate passwords.
No assumption is made regarding the given password; it is simply treated as a
byte sequence.
=head1 CONFORMING TO
SP800-132
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<EVP_KDF(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_CTX_new(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_CTX_free(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_CTX_set_params(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF_derive(3)>,
L<EVP_KDF(3)/PARAMETERS>
=head1 HISTORY
This functionality was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2018-2024 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>.
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