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EVP_VERIFYINIT(3)	     OpenSSL		EVP_VERIFYINIT(3)

NAME
     EVP_VerifyInit, EVP_VerifyUpdate, EVP_VerifyFinal - EVP sig-
     nature verification functions

SYNOPSIS
      #include <openssl/evp.h>

      int EVP_VerifyInit_ex(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const EVP_MD *type, ENGINE *impl);
      int EVP_VerifyUpdate(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const void *d, unsigned int cnt);
      int EVP_VerifyFinal(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx,unsigned char *sigbuf, unsigned int siglen,EVP_PKEY *pkey);

      int EVP_VerifyInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const EVP_MD *type);

DESCRIPTION
     The EVP signature verification routines are a high level
     interface to digital signatures.

     EVP_VerifyInit_ex() sets up verification context ctx to use
     digest type from ENGINE impl. ctx must be initialized by
     calling EVP_MD_CTX_init() before calling this function.

     EVP_VerifyUpdate() hashes cnt bytes of data at d into the
     verification context ctx. This function can be called
     several times on the same ctx to include additional data.

     EVP_VerifyFinal() verifies the data in ctx using the public
     key pkey and against the siglen bytes at sigbuf.

     EVP_VerifyInit() initializes verification context ctx to use
     the default implementation of digest type.

RETURN VALUES
     EVP_VerifyInit_ex() and EVP_VerifyUpdate() return 1 for suc-
     cess and 0 for failure.

     EVP_VerifyFinal() returns 1 for a correct signature, 0 for
     failure and -1 if some other error occurred.

     The error codes can be obtained by ERR_get_error(3).

NOTES
     The EVP interface to digital signatures should almost always
     be used in preference to the low level interfaces. This is
     because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm
     used and much more flexible.

     Due to the link between message digests and public key algo-
     rithms the correct digest algorithm must be used with the
     correct public key type. A list of algorithms and associated
     public key algorithms appears in EVP_DigestInit(3).

MirOS BSD #10-current	   2005-02-05				1

EVP_VERIFYINIT(3)	     OpenSSL		EVP_VERIFYINIT(3)

     The call to EVP_VerifyFinal() internally finalizes a copy of
     the digest context. This means that calls to
     EVP_VerifyUpdate() and EVP_VerifyFinal() can be called later
     to digest and verify additional data.

     Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized
     the context must be cleaned up after use by calling
     EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup() or a memory leak will occur.

BUGS
     Older versions of this documentation wrongly stated that
     calls to EVP_VerifyUpdate() could not be made after calling
     EVP_VerifyFinal().

SEE ALSO
     evp(3), EVP_SignInit(3), EVP_DigestInit(3), err(3), evp(3),
     hmac(3), md2(3), md5(3), mdc2(3), ripemd(3), sha(3), dgst(1)

HISTORY
     EVP_VerifyInit(), EVP_VerifyUpdate() and EVP_VerifyFinal()
     are available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.

     EVP_VerifyInit_ex() was added in OpenSSL 0.9.7

MirOS BSD #10-current	   2005-02-05				2

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