Validate a Diffie‐Hellman public key and report problems via the error queue (deprecated).

Synopsis

Declared in <openssl/dh.h>

[[deprecated]]
int
DH_check_pub_key_ex(
    DH const* dh,
    BIGNUM const* pub_key);
Warning

Deprecated. Use of this entity is allowed but discouraged.

Return Value

1 if the public key looks suitable, or 0 if checks fail (reasons are pushed to the error stack).

Parameters

Name

Description

dh

DH object providing the domain parameters used for the check.

pub_key

Public key value to validate against those parameters.

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