NAME

EVP_KDF_TLS1_PRF - The TLS1 PRF EVP_KDF implementation

DESCRIPTION

Support for computing the TLS1 PRF through the EVP_KDF API.

The EVP_KDF_TLS1_PRF algorithm implements the PRF used by TLS versions up to and including TLS 1.2.

Numeric identity

EVP_KDF_TLS1_PRF is the numeric identity for this implementation; it can be used with the EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id() function.

Supported controls

The supported controls are:

EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_MD

This control works as described in "CONTROLS" in EVP_KDF_CTX(3).

The EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_MD control is used to set the message digest associated with the TLS PRF. EVP_md5_sha1() is treated as a special case which uses the PRF algorithm using both MD5 and SHA1 as used in TLS 1.0 and 1.1.

EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_TLS_SECRET

This control expects two arguments: unsigned char *sec, size_t seclen

Sets the secret value of the TLS PRF to seclen bytes of the buffer sec. Any existing secret value is replaced.

EVP_KDF_ctrl_str() takes two type strings for this control:

"secret"

The value string is used as is.

"hexsecret"

The value string is expected to be a hexadecimal number, which will be decoded before being passed on as the control value.

EVP_KDF_CTRL_RESET_TLS_SEED

This control does not expect any arguments.

Resets the context seed buffer to zero length.

EVP_KDF_CTRL_ADD_TLS_SEED

This control expects two arguments: unsigned char *seed, size_t seedlen

Sets the seed to seedlen bytes of seed. If a seed is already set it is appended to the existing value.

The total length of the context seed buffer cannot exceed 1024 bytes; this should be more than enough for any normal use of the TLS PRF.

EVP_KDF_ctrl_str() takes two type strings for this control:

"seed"

The value string is used as is.

"hexseed"

The value string is expected to be a hexadecimal number, which will be decoded before being passed on as the control value.

NOTES

A context for the TLS PRF can be obtained by calling:

 EVP_KDF_CTX *kctx = EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id(EVP_KDF_TLS1_PRF, NULL);

The digest, secret value and seed must be set before a key is derived otherwise an error will occur.

The output length of the PRF is specified by the keylen parameter to the EVP_KDF_derive() function.

EXAMPLES

This example derives 10 bytes using SHA-256 with the secret key "secret" and seed value "seed":

 EVP_KDF_CTX *kctx;
 unsigned char out[10];

 kctx = EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id(EVP_KDF_TLS1_PRF);
 if (EVP_KDF_ctrl(kctx, EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_MD, EVP_sha256()) <= 0) {
     error("EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_MD");
 }
 if (EVP_KDF_ctrl(kctx, EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_TLS_SECRET,
                  "secret", (size_t)6) <= 0) {
     error("EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_TLS_SECRET");
 }
 if (EVP_KDF_ctrl(kctx, EVP_KDF_CTRL_ADD_TLS_SEED, "seed", (size_t)4) <= 0) {
     error("EVP_KDF_CTRL_ADD_TLS_SEED");
 }
 if (EVP_KDF_derive(kctx, out, sizeof(out)) <= 0) {
     error("EVP_KDF_derive");
 }
 EVP_KDF_CTX_free(kctx);

SEE ALSO

EVP_KDF_CTX, EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id(3), EVP_KDF_CTX_free(3), EVP_KDF_ctrl(3), EVP_KDF_derive(3), "CONTROLS" in EVP_KDF_CTX(3)

COPYRIGHT

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