es256_pk_from_EC_KEY3

Usage

Overview

ES256 is the name given in the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) RFC to ECDSA over P-256 with SHA-256. The COSE ES256 API of libfido2 is an auxiliary API with routines to convert between the different ECDSA public key types used in libfido2 and OpenSSL.

In libfido2, ES256 public keys are abstracted by the es256_pk_t type.

The es256_pk_new() function returns a pointer to a newly allocated, empty es256_pk_t type. If memory cannot be allocated, NULL is returned.

The es256_pk_free() function releases the memory backing *pkp, where *pkp must have been previously allocated by es256_pk_new(). On return, *pkp is set to NULL. Either pkp or *pkp may be NULL, in which case es256_pk_free() is a NOP.

The es256_pk_from_EC_KEY() function fills pk with the contents of ec. No references to ec are kept.

The es256_pk_from_EVP_PKEY() function fills pk with the contents of pkey. No references to pkey are kept.

The es256_pk_from_ptr() function fills pk with the contents of ptr, where ptr points to len bytes. The ptr pointer may point to an uncompressed point, or to the concatenation of the x and y coordinates. No references to ptr are kept.

The es256_pk_to_EVP_PKEY() function converts pk to a newly allocated EVP_PKEY type with a reference count of 1. No internal references to the returned pointer are kept. If an error occurs, es256_pk_to_EVP_PKEY() returns NULL.

Return values

The es256_pk_from_EC_KEY(), es256_pk_from_EVP_PKEY(), and es256_pk_from_ptr() functions return FIDO_OK on success. On error, a different error code defined in ⟨fido/err.h⟩ is returned.