Initialize a cipher context for password‐based encryption using a library context.

Synopsis

Declared in <openssl/evp.h>

int
EVP_PBE_CipherInit_ex(
    ASN1_OBJECT* pbe_obj,
    char const* pass,
    int passlen,
    ASN1_TYPE* param,
    EVP_CIPHER_CTX* ctx,
    int en_de,
    OSSL_LIB_CTX* libctx,
    char const* propq);

Return Value

1 on success, or 0 on failure.

Parameters

Name

Description

pbe_obj

OID identifying the PBE algorithm.

pass

Password bytes.

passlen

Length of pass in bytes, or ‐1 if pass is NUL‐terminated.

param

Algorithm parameters associated with pbe_obj.

ctx

Cipher context to initialize.

en_de

1 to encrypt, or 0 to decrypt.

libctx

Library context for fetching algorithms, or NULL for the default.

propq

Property query string, or NULL.

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