=pod =head1 NAME EVP_BytesToKey - password based encryption routine =head1 SYNOPSIS #include <openssl/evp.h> int EVP_BytesToKey(const EVP_CIPHER *type, const EVP_MD *md, const unsigned char *salt, const unsigned char *data, int datal, int count, unsigned char *key, unsigned char *iv); =head1 DESCRIPTION EVP_BytesToKey() derives a key and IV from various parameters. B<type> is the cipher to derive the key and IV for. B<md> is the message digest to use. The B<salt> parameter is used as a salt in the derivation: it should point to an 8 byte buffer or NULL if no salt is used. B<data> is a buffer containing B<datal> bytes which is used to derive the keying data. B<count> is the iteration count to use. The derived key and IV will be written to B<key> and B<iv> respectively. =head1 NOTES A typical application of this function is to derive keying material for an encryption algorithm from a password in the B<data> parameter. Increasing the B<count> parameter slows down the algorithm which makes it harder for an attacker to perform a brute force attack using a large number of candidate passwords. If the total key and IV length is less than the digest length and B<MD5> is used then the derivation algorithm is compatible with PKCS#5 v1.5 otherwise a non standard extension is used to derive the extra data. Newer applications should use a more modern algorithm such as PBKDF2 as defined in PKCS#5v2.1 and provided by PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC. =head1 KEY DERIVATION ALGORITHM The key and IV is derived by concatenating D_1, D_2, etc until enough data is available for the key and IV. D_i is defined as: D_i = HASH^count(D_(i-1) || data || salt) where || denotes concatenation, D_0 is empty, HASH is the digest algorithm in use, HASH^1(data) is simply HASH(data), HASH^2(data) is HASH(HASH(data)) and so on. The initial bytes are used for the key and the subsequent bytes for the IV. =head1 RETURN VALUES If B<data> is NULL, then EVP_BytesToKey() returns the number of bytes needed to store the derived key. Otherwise, EVP_BytesToKey() returns the size of the derived key in bytes, or 0 on error. =head1 SEE ALSO L<evp(7)>, L<RAND_bytes(3)>, L<PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC(3)>, L<EVP_EncryptInit(3)> =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2001-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the OpenSSL license (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 L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. =cut |