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17.Dd $Mdocdate: November 26 2021 $
18.Dt ASN1_ITEM_VERIFY 3
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm ASN1_item_verify
22.Nd signature verification for ASN.1 values
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.In openssl/x509.h
25.Ft int
26.Fo ASN1_item_verify
27.Fa "const ASN1_ITEM *it"
28.Fa "X509_ALGOR *algor1"
29.Fa "ASN1_BIT_STRING *sig_in"
30.Fa "void *val_in"
31.Fa "EVP_PKEY *pkey"
32.Fc
33.Sh DESCRIPTION
34.Fn ASN1_item_verify
35assumes that
36.Fa val_in
37is an
38.Ft ASN1_VALUE
39of the type specified by
40.Fa it ,
41encodes it into DER format by calling
42.Xr ASN1_item_i2d 3 ,
43and verifies in a way similar to
44.Xr EVP_DigestVerify 3
45that
46.Fa sig_in
47contains a valid signature of the resulting byte array,
48a signature that was created with the digest type
49.Fa algor1
50and the private key corresponding to the public key
51.Fa pkey .
52.Sh RETURN VALUES
53.Fn ASN1_item_verify
54returns 1 if signature verification succeeds, 0 if signature verification
55fails, or \-1 if
56.Fa pkey
57is
58.Dv NULL ,
59if
60.Fa sig_in
61contains invalid flags, or if
62.Fa algor1
63requests an invalid or unsupported digest algorithm
64or does not work with the given
65.Fa pkey .
66.Sh SEE ALSO
67.Xr ASN1_BIT_STRING_new 3 ,
68.Xr ASN1_item_i2d 3 ,
69.Xr ASN1_item_sign 3 ,
70.Xr EVP_DigestVerify 3 ,
71.Xr EVP_PKEY_new 3 ,
72.Xr X509_ALGOR_new 3
73.Sh HISTORY
74.Fn ASN1_item_verify
75first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.7 and has been available since
76.Ox 3.1 .
77