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PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC(3)                OpenSSL               PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC(3)



NAME
       PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC, PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 - password based derivation
       routines with salt and iteration count

LIBRARY
       libcrypto, -lcrypto

SYNOPSIS
        #include <openssl/evp.h>

        int PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC(const char *pass, int passlen,
                              const unsigned char *salt, int saltlen, int iter,
                              const EVP_MD *digest,
                              int keylen, unsigned char *out);

        int PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1(const char *pass, int passlen,
                                   const unsigned char *salt, int saltlen, int iter,
                                   int keylen, unsigned char *out);

DESCRIPTION
       PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC() derives a key from a password using a salt and
       iteration count as specified in RFC 2898.

       pass is the password used in the derivation of length passlen. pass is
       an optional parameter and can be NULL. If passlen is -1, then the
       function will calculate the length of pass using strlen().

       salt is the salt used in the derivation of length saltlen. If the salt
       is NULL, then saltlen must be 0. The function will not attempt to
       calculate the length of the salt because it is not assumed to be NULL
       terminated.

       iter is the iteration count and its value should be greater than or
       equal to 1. RFC 2898 suggests an iteration count of at least 1000. Any
       iter value less than 1 is invalid; such values will result in failure
       and raise the PROV_R_INVALID_ITERATION_COUNT error.

       digest is the message digest function used in the derivation.
       PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1() calls PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC() with EVP_sha1().

       The derived key will be written to out. The size of the out buffer is
       specified via keylen.

NOTES
       A typical application of this function is to derive keying material for
       an encryption algorithm from a password in the pass, a salt in salt,
       and an iteration count.

       Increasing the iter 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.

       These functions make no assumption regarding the given password.  It
       will simply be treated as a byte sequence.

RETURN VALUES
       PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC() and PBKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1() return 1 on success
       or 0 on error.

SEE ALSO
       evp(7), RAND_bytes(3), EVP_BytesToKey(3), passphrase-encoding(7)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2014-2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

       Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (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
       <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.



3.0.12                            2023-10-25              PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC(3)