Generate parameters or a key pair into *`ppkey` (unified keygen/paramgen entry).

Synopsis

Declared in <openssl/evp.h>

int
EVP_PKEY_generate(
    EVP_PKEY_CTX* ctx,
    EVP_PKEY** ppkey);

Return Value

1 on success, or a non‐positive value on failure.

Parameters

Name

Description

ctx

Context prepared with EVP_PKEY_keygen_init() or EVP_PKEY_paramgen_init().

ppkey

Address of an EVP_PKEY pointer that receives the new object (allocated if NULL).

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