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EVP_PKEY-DSA(7SSL)

📛 NAME

EVP_PKEY-DSA, EVP_KEYMGMT-DSA - EVP_PKEY DSA keytype and algorithm support

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🛠️ Get a DSA context	EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "DSA", NULL)	Create an EVP_PKEY_CTX for DSA operations.
⚙️ Generate domain parameters	EVP_PKEY_paramgen_init(ctx); EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_params(ctx, params); EVP_PKEY_generate(ctx, &pkey);	Generate DSA domain parameters (p, q, g) with specified pbits, qbits, digest, and gindex.
🔑 Generate key from parameters	EVP_PKEY_keygen_init(ctx); EVP_PKEY_generate(ctx, &key);	Generate a DSA keypair using previously generated domain parameters.
📄 Print parameters	EVP_PKEY_print_params(bio_out, pkey, 0, NULL)	Print DSA domain parameters to a BIO output.

📘 DESCRIPTION

For DSA the FIPS186-4 standard specifies that the values used for FFC parameter generation are also required for parameter validation. This means that optional FFC domain parameter values for seed, pcounter and gindex may need to be stored for validation purposes. For DSA these fields are not stored in the ASN1 data so they need to be stored externally if validation is required.

🔧 DSA parameters

The DSA key type supports the FFC parameters (see "FFC parameters" in EVP_PKEY-FFC(7)).

⚙️ DSA key generation parameters

The DSA key type supports the FFC key generation parameters (see "FFC key generation parameters" in EVP_PKEY-FFC(7)).

The following restrictions apply to the "pbits" field:

• 📏 For "fips186_4", pbits must be either 2048 or 3072.
• 📏 For "fips186_2", pbits must be 1024.
• 📏 For "group", pbits can be any one of 2048, 3072, 4096, 6144 or 8192.

💡 EXAMPLES

An EVP_PKEY context can be obtained by calling:

EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx = EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "DSA", NULL);

The DSA domain parameters can be generated by calling:

unsigned int pbits = 2048;
unsigned int qbits = 256;
int gindex = 1;
OSSL_PARAM params[5];
EVP_PKEY *param_key = NULL;
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx = NULL;

pctx = EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "DSA", NULL);
EVP_PKEY_paramgen_init(pctx);

params[0] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint("pbits", &pbits);
params[1] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint("qbits", &qbits);
params[2] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_int("gindex", &gindex);
params[3] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_utf8_string("digest", "SHA384", 0);
params[4] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_end();
EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_params(pctx, params);

EVP_PKEY_generate(pctx, &param_key);
EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx);

EVP_PKEY_print_params(bio_out, param_key, 0, NULL);

A DSA key can be generated using domain parameters by calling:

EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
EVP_PKEY_CTX *gctx = NULL;

gctx = EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_pkey(NULL, param_key, NULL);
EVP_PKEY_keygen_init(gctx);
EVP_PKEY_generate(gctx, &key);
EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(gctx);
EVP_PKEY_print_private(bio_out, key, 0, NULL);

✅ CONFORMING TO

The following sections of FIPS 186-4:

• 📜 A.1.1.2 Generation of Probable Primes p and q Using an Approved Hash Function.
• 📜 A.2.3 Generation of canonical generator g.
• 📜 A.2.1 Unverifiable Generation of the Generator g.

🔗 SEE ALSO

• EVP_PKEY-FFC(7)
• EVP_SIGNATURE-DSA(7)
• EVP_PKEY(3)
• provider-keymgmt(7)
• EVP_KEYMGMT(3)
• OSSL_PROVIDER-default(7)
• OSSL_PROVIDER-FIPS(7)

©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2020-2021 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 <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

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