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  57. .IX Title "X509_SIGN 3ossl"
  58. .TH X509_SIGN 3ossl 2025-01-17 3.4.0 OpenSSL
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  62. .nh
  63. .SH NAME
  64. X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx,
  65. X509_REQ_sign, X509_REQ_sign_ctx,
  66. X509_ACERT_sign, X509_ACERT_sign_ctx,
  67. X509_CRL_sign, X509_CRL_sign_ctx \-
  68. sign certificate, certificate request, or CRL signature
  69. .SH SYNOPSIS
  70. .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
  71. .Vb 1
  72. \& #include <openssl/x509.h>
  73. \&
  74. \& int X509_sign(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  75. \& int X509_sign_ctx(X509 *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
  76. \&
  77. \& int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  78. \& int X509_REQ_sign_ctx(X509_REQ *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
  79. \&
  80. \& int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  81. \& int X509_CRL_sign_ctx(X509_CRL *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
  82. \&
  83. \& #include <openssl/x509_acert.h>
  84. \&
  85. \& int X509_ACERT_sign(X509_ACERT *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  86. \& int X509_ACERT_sign_ctx(X509_ACERT *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
  87. .Ve
  88. .SH DESCRIPTION
  89. .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
  90. \&\fBX509_sign()\fR signs certificate \fIx\fR using private key \fIpkey\fR and message
  91. digest \fImd\fR and sets the signature in \fIx\fR. \fBX509_sign_ctx()\fR also signs
  92. certificate \fIx\fR but uses the parameters contained in digest context \fIctx\fR.
  93. If the certificate information includes X.509 extensions,
  94. these two functions make sure that the certificate bears X.509 version 3.
  95. .PP
  96. \&\fBX509_REQ_sign()\fR, \fBX509_REQ_sign_ctx()\fR,
  97. \&\fBX509_ACERT_sign()\fR, \fBX509_ACERT_sign_ctx()\fR,
  98. \&\fBX509_CRL_sign()\fR, and \fBX509_CRL_sign_ctx()\fR
  99. sign certificate requests and CRLs, respectively.
  100. .SH NOTES
  101. .IX Header "NOTES"
  102. \&\fBX509_sign_ctx()\fR is used where the default parameters for the corresponding
  103. public key and digest are not suitable. It can be used to sign keys using
  104. RSA-PSS for example.
  105. .PP
  106. For efficiency reasons and to work around ASN.1 encoding issues the encoding
  107. of the signed portion of a certificate, certificate request and CRL is cached
  108. internally. If the signed portion of the structure is modified the encoding
  109. is not always updated meaning a stale version is sometimes used. This is not
  110. normally a problem because modifying the signed portion will invalidate the
  111. signature and signing will always update the encoding.
  112. .SH "RETURN VALUES"
  113. .IX Header "RETURN VALUES"
  114. All functions return the size of the signature
  115. in bytes for success and zero for failure.
  116. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  117. .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
  118. \&\fBERR_get_error\fR\|(3),
  119. \&\fBX509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt\fR\|(3),
  120. \&\fBX509_new\fR\|(3),
  121. \&\fBX509_verify_cert\fR\|(3),
  122. \&\fBX509_verify\fR\|(3),
  123. \&\fBX509_REQ_verify_ex\fR\|(3), \fBX509_REQ_verify\fR\|(3),
  124. \&\fBX509_CRL_verify\fR\|(3)
  125. .SH HISTORY
  126. .IX Header "HISTORY"
  127. The \fBX509_sign()\fR, \fBX509_REQ_sign()\fR and \fBX509_CRL_sign()\fR functions are
  128. available in all versions of OpenSSL.
  129. .PP
  130. The \fBX509_sign_ctx()\fR, \fBX509_REQ_sign_ctx()\fR
  131. and \fBX509_CRL_sign_ctx()\fR functions were added in OpenSSL 1.0.1.
  132. .PP
  133. The \fBX509_ACERT_sign()\fR and \fBX509_ACERT_sign_ctx()\fR functions were added
  134. in OpenSSL 3.4.
  135. .SH COPYRIGHT
  136. .IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
  137. Copyright 2015\-2024 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
  138. .PP
  139. Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
  140. this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
  141. in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
  142. <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.