{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "OSSL_PROVIDER-BASE",
    "section": "7SSL",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/OSSL_PROVIDER-BASE/7SSL/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-15T14:38:54Z",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "OSSLPROVIDER-base - OpenSSL base provider\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "The OpenSSL base provider supplies the encoding for OpenSSL's asymmetric cryptography.\n",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "Properties",
                    "content": "The implementations in this provider specifically have this property defined:\n\n\"provider=base\"\n\nIt may be used in a property query string with fetching functions.\n\nIt isn't mandatory to query for this property, except to make sure to get implementations of\nthis provider and none other.\n\n\"type=parameters\"\n\"type=private\"\n\"type=public\"\n\nThese may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select which data are\nto be encoded.  Either the private key material, the public key material or the domain\nparameters can be selected.\n\n\"format=der\"\n\"format=pem\"\n\"format=text\"\n\nThese may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select the encoding\noutput format.  Either the DER, PEM and plaintext are currently permitted.\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        "OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS": {
            "content": "The OpenSSL base provider supports these operations and algorithms:\n",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "Asymmetric Key Encoder",
                    "content": "In addition to \"provider=base\", some of these encoders define the property \"fips=yes\", to\nallow them to be used together with the FIPS provider.\n\nRSA, see OSSLENCODER-RSA(7)\nDH, see OSSLENCODER-DH(7)\nDSA, see OSSLENCODER-DSA(7)\nEC, see OSSLENCODER-EC(7)\nX25519, see OSSLENCODER-X25519(7)\nX448, see OSSLENCODER-X448(7)\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "OSSLPROVIDER-default(7), openssl-core.h(7), openssl-coredispatch.h(7), provider(7)\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COPYRIGHT": {
            "content": "Copyright 2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.\n\nLicensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the \"License\").  You may not use this file except in\ncompliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source\ndistribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.\n\n\n\n3.0.2                                        2026-06-02                     OSSLPROVIDER-BASE(7SSL)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "OSSLPROVIDER-base - OpenSSL base provider",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "OSSLPROVIDER-default",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/OSSLPROVIDER-default/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "openssl-core.h",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/openssl-core.h/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "openssl-coredispatch.h",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/openssl-coredispatch.h/7/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "provider",
            "section": "7",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/provider/7/json"
        }
    ]
}