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<H1>CRYPTO</H1>
Section: OpenSSL (7SSL)<BR>Updated: 2021-03-22<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
crypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
See the individual manual pages for details.
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The OpenSSL <B>crypto</B> library implements a wide range of cryptographic
algorithms used in various Internet standards. The services provided
by this library are used by the OpenSSL implementations of <FONT SIZE="-1">SSL, TLS</FONT>
and S/MIME, and they have also been used to implement <FONT SIZE="-1">SSH,</FONT> OpenPGP, and
other cryptographic standards.
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<B>libcrypto</B> consists of a number of sub-libraries that implement the
individual algorithms.
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The functionality includes symmetric encryption, public key
cryptography and key agreement, certificate handling, cryptographic
hash functions, cryptographic pseudo-random number generator, and
various utilities.
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<H2>NOTES</H2>
Some of the newer functions follow a naming convention using the numbers
<B>0</B> and <B>1</B>. For example the functions:
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int X509_CRL_add0_revoked(X509_CRL *crl, X509_REVOKED *rev);
int X509_add1_trust_object(X509 *x, const ASN1_OBJECT *obj);
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The <B>0</B> version uses the supplied structure pointer directly
in the parent and it will be freed up when the parent is freed.
In the above example <B>crl</B> would be freed but <B>rev</B> would not.
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The <B>1</B> function uses a copy of the supplied structure pointer
(or in some cases increases its link count) in the parent and
so both (<B>x</B> and <B>obj</B> above) should be freed up.
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<H2>RETURN VALUES</H2>
See the individual manual pages for details.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+openssl">openssl</A></B>(1), <B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+ssl">ssl</A></B>(7)
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<H2>COPYRIGHT</H2>
Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the ``License''). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file <FONT SIZE="-1">LICENSE</FONT> in the source distribution or at
&lt;<A HREF="https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html">https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html</A>&gt;.
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<DT id="2"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
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<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAF">RETURN VALUES</A><DD>
<DT id="6"><A HREF="#lbAG">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAH">COPYRIGHT</A><DD>
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