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RSA_private_encrypt
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NAME

RSA_private_encrypt, RSA_public_decrypt - low level signature operations

Synopsis  

#include <openssl/rsa.h>
int RSA_private_encrypt(int flen, unsigned char *from, unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding);
int RSA_public_decrypt(int flen, unsigned char *from, unsigned char *to, RSA *rsa, int padding);


return to top DESCRIPTION  

These functions handle RSA signatures at a low level.

RSA_private_encrypt() signs the flen bytes at from (usually a message digest with an algorithm identifier) using the private key rsa and stores the signature in to. to must point to RSA_size(rsa) bytes of memory.

padding denotes one of the following modes:

RSA_public_decrypt() recovers the message digest from the flen bytes long signature at from using the signer's public key rsa. to must point to a memory section large enough to hold the message digest (which is smaller than RSA_size(rsa) - 11). padding is the padding mode that was used to sign the data.


return to top RETURN VALUES  

RSA_private_encrypt() returns the size of the signature (i.e., RSA_size(rsa)). RSA_public_decrypt() returns the size of the recovered message digest.

On error, -1 is returned; the error codes can be obtained by ERR_get_error(3) .


return to top SEE ALSO  

ERR_get_error(3) , rsa(3) , RSA_sign(3) , RSA_verify(3)


return to top HISTORY  

The padding argument was added in SSLeay 0.8. RSA_NO_PADDING is available since SSLeay 0.9.0.
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