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<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>DH_size</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rev="made" href="mailto:root@localhost" /> </head> <body> <ul id="index"> <li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li> <li><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li> <li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li> <li><a href="#RETURN-VALUES">RETURN VALUES</a></li> <li><a href="#SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li> <li><a href="#HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li> <li><a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a></li> </ul> <h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1> <p>DH_size, DH_bits, DH_security_bits - get Diffie-Hellman prime size and security bits</p> <h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1> <pre><code> #include <openssl/dh.h> int DH_size(const DH *dh); int DH_bits(const DH *dh); int DH_security_bits(const DH *dh);</code></pre> <h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1> <p>DH_size() returns the Diffie-Hellman prime size in bytes. It can be used to determine how much memory must be allocated for the shared secret computed by <a href="../man3/DH_compute_key.html">DH_compute_key(3)</a>.</p> <p>DH_bits() returns the number of significant bits.</p> <p><b>dh</b> and <b>dh->p</b> must not be <b>NULL</b>.</p> <p>DH_security_bits() returns the number of security bits of the given <b>dh</b> key. See <a href="../man3/BN_security_bits.html">BN_security_bits(3)</a>.</p> <h1 id="RETURN-VALUES">RETURN VALUES</h1> <p>DH_size() returns the prime size of Diffie-Hellman in bytes.</p> <p>DH_bits() returns the number of bits in the key.</p> <p>DH_security_bits() returns the number of security bits.</p> <h1 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1> <p><a href="../man3/DH_new.html">DH_new(3)</a>, <a href="../man3/DH_generate_key.html">DH_generate_key(3)</a>, <a href="../man3/BN_num_bits.html">BN_num_bits(3)</a></p> <h1 id="HISTORY">HISTORY</h1> <p>The DH_bits() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0.</p> <h1 id="COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</h1> <p>Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html">https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html</a>.</p> </body> </html>
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