EVP_KDF_PBKDF2
Section: OpenSSL (7)
Updated: 2020-07-28
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NAME
EVP_KDF_PBKDF2 - The PBKDF2 EVP_KDF implementation
DESCRIPTION
Support for computing the
PBKDF2 password-based
KDF through the
EVP_KDF
API.
The EVP_KDF_PBKDF2 algorithm implements the PBKDF2 password-based key
derivation function, as described in RFC 2898; it derives a key from a password
using a salt and iteration count.
Numeric identity
EVP_KDF_PBKDF2 is the numeric identity for this implementation; it
can be used with the
EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id() function.
Supported controls
The supported controls are:
- EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_PASS
-
- EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_SALT
-
- EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_ITER
-
- EVP_KDF_CTRL_SET_MD
-
These controls work as described in ``CONTROLS'' in EVP_KDF_CTX(3).
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. The default value is
2048. Any iter less than 1 is treated as a single iteration.
NOTES
A typical application of this algorithm 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.
No assumption is made regarding the given password; it is simply treated as a
byte sequence.
CONFORMING TO
RFC 2898
SEE ALSO
EVP_KDF_CTX,
EVP_KDF_CTX_new_id(3),
EVP_KDF_CTX_free(3),
EVP_KDF_ctrl(3),
EVP_KDF_derive(3),
``
CONTROLS'' in
EVP_KDF_CTX(3)
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