openssl/doc/man7/scrypt.pod
Richard Levitte a8ca496ddb Split the scrypt and RSA-PSS into man3 and man7 pages
The scrypt and RSA-PSS documents were a mixture of section 3 and
section 7 material.  With pre-1.1.1 OpenSSL, this is understandable,
since we had a different directory layout.  With 1.1.1, we've moved to
the typical man-page directory layout, and the documents need to be
updated accordingly.

Also, the scrypt document contained a description of
EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_pbe_pass(), which is a generic function rather than
an scrypt specific function, and therefore should be documented
separately.

Fixes #5802

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5942)
2018-04-13 11:55:13 +02:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
scrypt - EVP_PKEY scrypt KDF support
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The EVP_PKEY_SCRYPT algorithm implements the scrypt password based key
derivation function, as described in RFC 7914. It is memory-hard in the sense
that it deliberately requires a significant amount of RAM for efficient
computation. The intention of this is to render brute forcing of passwords on
systems that lack large amounts of main memory (such as GPUs or ASICs)
computationally infeasible.
scrypt provides three work factors that can be customized: N, r and p. N, which
has to be a positive power of two, is the general work factor and scales CPU
time in an approximately linear fashion. r is the block size of the internally
used hash function and p is the parallelization factor. Both r and p need to be
greater than zero. The amount of RAM that scrypt requires for its computation
is roughly (128 * N * r * p) bytes.
In the original paper of Colin Percival ("Stronger Key Derivation via
Sequential Memory-Hard Functions", 2009), the suggested values that give a
computation time of less than 5 seconds on a 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo are N =
2^20 = 1048576, r = 8, p = 1. Consequently, the required amount of memory for
this computation is roughly 1 GiB. On a more recent CPU (Intel i7-5930K at 3.5
GHz), this computation takes about 3 seconds. When N, r or p are not specified,
they default to 1048576, 8, and 1, respectively. The default amount of RAM that
may be used by scrypt defaults to 1025 MiB.
=head1 NOTES
A context for scrypt can be obtained by calling:
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx = EVP_PKEY_new_id(EVP_PKEY_SCRYPT, NULL);
The output length of an scrypt key derivation is specified via the
length parameter to the L<EVP_PKEY_derive(3)> function.
=head1 EXAMPLE
This example derives a 64-byte long test vector using scrypt using the password
"password", salt "NaCl" and N = 1024, r = 8, p = 16.
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx;
unsigned char out[64];
size_t outlen = sizeof(out);
pctx = EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id(EVP_PKEY_SCRYPT, NULL);
if (EVP_PKEY_derive_init(pctx) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_derive_init");
}
if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_pbe_pass(pctx, "password", 8) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_pbe_pass");
}
if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_scrypt_salt(pctx, "NaCl", 4) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_scrypt_salt");
}
if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_N(pctx, 1024) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_N");
}
if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_r(pctx, 8) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_r");
}
if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_p(pctx, 16) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_p");
}
if (EVP_PKEY_derive(pctx, out, &outlen) <= 0) {
error("EVP_PKEY_derive");
}
{
const unsigned char expected[sizeof(out)] = {
0xfd, 0xba, 0xbe, 0x1c, 0x9d, 0x34, 0x72, 0x00,
0x78, 0x56, 0xe7, 0x19, 0x0d, 0x01, 0xe9, 0xfe,
0x7c, 0x6a, 0xd7, 0xcb, 0xc8, 0x23, 0x78, 0x30,
0xe7, 0x73, 0x76, 0x63, 0x4b, 0x37, 0x31, 0x62,
0x2e, 0xaf, 0x30, 0xd9, 0x2e, 0x22, 0xa3, 0x88,
0x6f, 0xf1, 0x09, 0x27, 0x9d, 0x98, 0x30, 0xda,
0xc7, 0x27, 0xaf, 0xb9, 0x4a, 0x83, 0xee, 0x6d,
0x83, 0x60, 0xcb, 0xdf, 0xa2, 0xcc, 0x06, 0x40
};
assert(!memcmp(out, expected, sizeof(out)));
}
EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx);
=head1 CONFORMING TO
RFC 7914
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_scrypt_salt(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_N(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_r(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_p(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_scrypt_maxmem_bytes(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_new(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl_str(3)>,
L<EVP_PKEY_derive(3)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2017-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (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
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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