OSSL_PROVIDER-LEGACY(7SSL) OpenSSL OSSL_PROVIDER-LEGACY(7SSL)
NAME
OSSL_PROVIDER-legacy - OpenSSL legacy provider
DESCRIPTION
The OpenSSL legacy provider supplies OpenSSL implementations of
algorithms that have been deemed legacy. Such algorithms have commonly
fallen out of use, have been deemed insecure by the cryptography
community, or something similar.
We can consider this the retirement home of cryptographic algorithms.
Properties
The implementations in this provider specifically has this property
defined:
"provider=legacy"
It may be used in a property query string with fetching functions such
as EVP_MD_fetch(3) or EVP_CIPHER_fetch(3), as well as with other
functions that take a property query string, such as
EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(3).
It isn't mandatory to query for any of these properties, except to make
sure to get implementations of this provider and none other.
OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS
The OpenSSL legacy provider supports these operations and algorithms:
Hashing Algorithms / Message Digests
MD2, see EVP_MD-MD2(7)
Disabled by default. Use enable-md2 config option to enable.
MD4, see EVP_MD-MD4(7)
MDC2, see EVP_MD-MDC2(7)
WHIRLPOOL, see EVP_MD-WHIRLPOOL(7)
RIPEMD160, see EVP_MD-RIPEMD160(7)
Symmetric Ciphers
Not all of these symmetric cipher algorithms are enabled by default.
Blowfish, see EVP_CIPHER-BLOWFISH(7)
CAST, see EVP_CIPHER-CAST(7)
DES, see EVP_CIPHER-DES(7)
The algorithm names are: DES_ECB, DES_CBC, DES_OFB, DES_CFB,
DES_CFB1, DES_CFB8 and DESX_CBC.
IDEA, see EVP_CIPHER-IDEA(7)
RC2, see EVP_CIPHER-RC2(7)
RC4, see EVP_CIPHER-RC4(7)
RC5, see EVP_CIPHER-RC5(7)
Disabled by default. Use enable-rc5 config option to enable.
SEED, see EVP_CIPHER-SEED(7)
Key Derivation Function (KDF)
PBKDF1
PVKKDF
SEE ALSO
OSSL_PARAM(3), openssl-core.h(7), openssl-core_dispatch.h(7),
provider(7)
HISTORY
This functionality was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2020-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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