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00df073c
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Mar 11, 2003
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Niels Möller
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Ran ispell on the document.
Rev: src/nettle/nettle.texinfo:1.20
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@@ -1187,8 +1187,9 @@ nettle_hash} describing the underlying hash function. The last two
arguments specify where the digest is written.
@end deffn
Note that there is no @code
{
HMAC
_
UPDATE
}
macro; simply call hmac
_
update
function directly, or the update function of the underlying hash function.
Note that there is no @code
{
HMAC
_
UPDATE
}
macro; simply call
@code
{
hmac
_
update
}
function directly, or the update function of the
underlying hash function.
@subsection Concrete @acronym
{
HMAC
}
functions
Now we come to the specialized @acronym
{
HMAC
}
functions, which are
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@@ -1446,7 +1447,7 @@ deallocated by calling one of
Calls @code
{
mpz
_
clear
}
on all numbers in the key struct.
@end deftypefun
In general, Nettle's @acronym
{
rsa
}
functions deviates from Nettle's "no
In general, Nettle's @acronym
{
RSA
}
functions deviates from Nettle's "no
memory allocation"-policy. Space for all the numbers, both in the key structs
above, and temporaries, are allocated dynamically. For information on how
to customize allocation, see
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@@ -1464,9 +1465,9 @@ than the minimum size specified by PKCS#1.
Before signing or verifying a message, you first hash it with the
appropriate hash function. You pass the hash function's context struct
to the
rsa
function, and it will extract the message
digest and do the
rest of the work. There are also alternative functions
that take the
@acronym
{
md
5
}
or @acronym
{
sha
1
}
hash digest as argument.
to the
@acronym
{
RSA
}
signature
function, and it will extract the message
digest and do the
rest of the work. There are also alternative functions
that take the
@acronym
{
MD
5
}
or @acronym
{
SHA
1
}
hash digest as argument.
Creation and verification of signatures is done with the following functions:
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@@ -1492,8 +1493,7 @@ the hash context is reset so that it can be used for new messages.
@end deftypefun
@deftypefun int rsa
_
md5
_
verify
_
digest (const struct rsa
_
public
_
key *@var
{
key
}
, const uint8
_
t *@var
{
digest
}
, const mpz
_
t @var
{
signature
}
)
@deftypefunx int rsa
_
sha1
_
verify
_
digest (const struct rsa
_
public
_
key
*@var
{
key
}
, const uint8
_
t *@var
{
digest
}
, const mpz
_
t @var
{
signature
}
)
@deftypefunx int rsa
_
sha1
_
verify
_
digest (const struct rsa
_
public
_
key *@var
{
key
}
, const uint8
_
t *@var
{
digest
}
, const mpz
_
t @var
{
signature
}
)
Returns 1 if the signature is valid, or 0 if it isn't. @var
{
digest
}
should
point to a digest of size @code
{
MD5
_
DIGEST
_
SIZE
}
or
@code
{
SHA1
_
DIGEST
_
SIZE
}
, respectively.
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@@ -1542,9 +1542,9 @@ example if if @var{n_size} is too small, or if @var{e_size} is zero and
The @acronym
{
DSA
}
digital signature algorithm is more complex than
@acronym
{
RSA
}
. It was specified during the early 1990s, and in 1994 NIST
published FIPS 186 which is the authoritative specification.
Sometimes
@acronym
{
DSA
}
is referred to using the acronym @acronym
{
DSS
}
,
for
Digital Signature Standard.
published
@acronym
{
FIPS
}
186 which is the authoritative specification.
Sometimes
@acronym
{
DSA
}
is referred to using the acronym @acronym
{
DSS
}
,
for
Digital Signature Standard.
For @acronym
{
DSA
}
, the underlying mathematical problem is the
computation of discreet logarithms. The public key consists of a large
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@c LocalWords: RSA Daemen Rijnmen Schneier DES's ede structs oddnesses HMAC
@c LocalWords: NIST Alice's GMP bignum Diffie Adi Shamir Adleman Euclid's ASN
@c LocalWords: PKCS callbacks Young's urtica dioica autoconf automake SSH tad
@c LocalWords: unguessability reseeding reseed alternatingly keysym
@c LocalWords: unguessability reseeding reseed alternatingly keysym subkeys
@c LocalWords: DSA gmp FIPS DSS libdes OpenSSL
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