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📛 NAME

EVP_SIGNATURE-HMAC, EVP_SIGNATURE-Siphash, EVP_SIGNATURE-Poly1305, EVP_SIGNATURE-CMAC – The legacy EVP_PKEY MAC signature implementations

🚀 Quick Reference

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🔑 Create HMACEVP_DigestSignInit(ctx, NULL, EVP_sha256(), NULL, hmac_pkey)Legacy way to create an HMAC using EVP_PKEY
🔑 Create SiphashEVP_DigestSignInit(ctx, NULL, NULL, NULL, siphash_pkey)Legacy way to create a Siphash MAC
🔑 Create Poly1305EVP_DigestSignInit(ctx, NULL, NULL, NULL, poly1305_pkey)Legacy way to create a Poly1305 MAC
🔑 Create CMACEVP_DigestSignInit(ctx, NULL, NULL, NULL, cmac_pkey)Legacy way to create a CMAC

📌 Note: These are legacy methods. Prefer the newer EVP_MAC_init(3) functions.

📖 DESCRIPTION

The algorithms described here have legacy support for creating MACs using EVP_DigestSignInit(3) and related functions. This is not the preferred way of creating MACs. Instead you should use the newer EVP_MAC_init(3) functions. This mechanism is provided for backwards compatibility with older versions of OpenSSL.

The same signature parameters can be set using EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_params() as can be set via EVP_MAC_CTX_set_params() for the underlying EVP_MAC. See EVP_MAC-HMAC(7), EVP_MAC-Siphash(7), EVP_MAC-Poly1305(7) and EVP_MAC-CMAC(7) for details.

See L<EVP_PKEY-HMAC(7)>, L<EVP_PKEY-Siphash(7)>, L<EVP_PKEY-Poly1305(7)> or L<EVP_PKEY-CMAC(7)> for details about parameters that are supported during the creation of an EVP_PKEY.

🔗 SEE ALSO

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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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