1X509_SIGN(3ossl)                    OpenSSL                   X509_SIGN(3ossl)
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NAME

6       X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx, X509_REQ_sign, X509_REQ_sign_ctx,
7       X509_CRL_sign, X509_CRL_sign_ctx - sign certificate, certificate
8       request, or CRL signature
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SYNOPSIS

11        #include <openssl/x509.h>
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13        int X509_sign(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
14        int X509_sign_ctx(X509 *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
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16        int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
17        int X509_REQ_sign_ctx(X509_REQ *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
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19        int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
20        int X509_CRL_sign_ctx(X509_CRL *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
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DESCRIPTION

23       X509_sign() signs certificate x using private key pkey and message
24       digest md and sets the signature in x. X509_sign_ctx() also signs
25       certificate x but uses the parameters contained in digest context ctx.
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27       X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(), X509_CRL_sign(), and
28       X509_CRL_sign_ctx() sign certificate requests and CRLs, respectively.
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NOTES

31       X509_sign_ctx() is used where the default parameters for the
32       corresponding public key and digest are not suitable. It can be used to
33       sign keys using RSA-PSS for example.
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35       For efficiency reasons and to work around ASN.1 encoding issues the
36       encoding of the signed portion of a certificate, certificate request
37       and CRL is cached internally. If the signed portion of the structure is
38       modified the encoding is not always updated meaning a stale version is
39       sometimes used. This is not normally a problem because modifying the
40       signed portion will invalidate the signature and signing will always
41       update the encoding.
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RETURN VALUES

44       All functions return the size of the signature in bytes for success and
45       zero for failure.
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SEE ALSO

48       ERR_get_error(3), X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(3), X509_new(3),
49       X509_verify_cert(3), X509_verify(3), X509_REQ_verify_ex(3),
50       X509_REQ_verify(3), X509_CRL_verify(3)
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HISTORY

53       The X509_sign(), X509_REQ_sign() and X509_CRL_sign() functions are
54       available in all versions of OpenSSL.
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56       The X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx() and X509_CRL_sign_ctx()
57       functions were added in OpenSSL 1.0.1.
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60       Copyright 2015-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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62       Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
63       this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
64       in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
65       <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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693.0.5                             2022-07-05                  X509_SIGN(3ossl)
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