ADC Home > Reference Library > Reference > Mac OS X > Mac OS X Man Pages
|
This document is a Mac OS X manual page. Manual pages are a command-line technology for providing documentation. You can view these manual pages locally using the man(1) command. These manual pages come from many different sources, and thus, have a variety of writing styles. For more information about the manual page format, see the manual page for manpages(5). |
RSA_generate_key(3) OpenSSL RSA_generate_key(3) NAME RSA_generate_key - generate RSA key pair SYNOPSIS #include <openssl/rsa.h> RSA *RSA_generate_key(int num, unsigned long e, void (*callback)(int,int,void *), void *cb_arg); DESCRIPTION RSA_generate_key() generates a key pair and returns it in a newly allocated RSA structure. The pseudo-random number generator must be seeded prior to calling RSA_generate_key(). The modulus size will be num bits, and the public exponent will be e. Key sizes with num < 1024 should be considered insecure. The exponent is an odd number, typically 3, 17 or 65537. A callback function may be used to provide feedback about the progress of the key generation. If callback is not NULL, it will be called as follows: While a random prime number is generated, it is called as described in BN_generate_prime(3). When the n-th randomly generated prime is rejected as not suitable for the key, callback(2, n, cb_arg) is called. When a random p has been found with p-1 relatively prime to e, it is called as callback(3, 0, cb_arg). The process is then repeated for prime q with callback(3, 1, cb_arg). RETURN VALUE If key generation fails, RSA_generate_key() returns NULL; the error codes can be obtained by ERR_get_error(3). BUGS callback(2, x, cb_arg) is used with two different meanings. RSA_generate_key() goes into an infinite loop for illegal input values. SEE ALSO ERR_get_error(3), rand(3), rsa(3), RSA_free(3) HISTORY The cb_arg argument was added in SSLeay 0.9.0. 0.9.7l 2002-09-25 RSA_generate_key(3) |