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======================================================================== Title "OSSL_PROVIDER-BASE 7ossl" OSSL_PROVIDER-BASE 7ossl 2025-07-01 3.5.1 OpenSSL
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OSSL_PROVIDER-base - OpenSSL base provider
DESCRIPTION
Header "DESCRIPTION" The OpenSSL base provider supplies the encoding for OpenSSL's
asymmetric cryptography.
Properties
Subsection "Properties" The implementations in this provider specifically have this property
defined:
"""provider=base""" 4
Item """provider=base"""
It may be used in a property query string with fetching functions.
It isn't mandatory to query for this property, except to make sure to get
implementations of this provider and none other.
"""type=parameters""" 4
Item """type=parameters""" 0
"""type=private""" 4
Item """type=private""" """type=public""" 4
Item """type=public"""
These may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select
which data are to be encoded. Either the private key material, the public
key material or the domain parameters can be selected.
"""format=der""" 4
Item """format=der""" 0
"""format=pem""" 4
Item """format=pem""" """format=text""" 4
Item """format=text"""
These may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select
the encoding output format. Either the DER, PEM and plaintext are
currently permitted.
"OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS"
Header "OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS" The OpenSSL base provider supports these operations and algorithms:
"Random Number Generation"
Subsection "Random Number Generation" "SEED-SRC, see EVP_RAND-SEED-SRC\|(7)" 4
Item "SEED-SRC, see EVP_RAND-SEED-SRC" 0
"JITTER, see EVP_RAND-JITTER\|(7)" 4
Item "JITTER, see EVP_RAND-JITTER"
In addition to this provider, the "SEED-SRC" and "JITTER" algorithms
are also available in the default provider.
"Asymmetric Key Encoder"
Subsection "Asymmetric Key Encoder" RSA 4
Item "RSA" 0
RSA-PSS 4
Item "RSA-PSS" DH 4
Item "DH" DHX 4
Item "DHX" DSA 4
Item "DSA" EC 4
Item "EC" ED25519 4
Item "ED25519" ED448 4
Item "ED448" X25519 4
Item "X25519" X448 4
Item "X448" SM2 4
Item "SM2" ML-DSA-44 4
Item "ML-DSA-44" ML-DSA-65 4
Item "ML-DSA-65" ML-DSA-87 4
Item "ML-DSA-87" ML-KEM-512 4
Item "ML-KEM-512" ML-KEM-768 4
Item "ML-KEM-768" ML-KEM-1024 4
Item "ML-KEM-1024" SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s" SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f" SLH-DSA-SHA2-192s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-192s" SLH-DSA-SHA2-192f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-192f" SLH-DSA-SHA2-256s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-256s" SLH-DSA-SHA2-256f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-256f" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128s" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128f" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192s" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192f" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256s" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f"
In addition to this provider, all of these encoding algorithms are also
available in the default provider. Some of these algorithms may be used in
combination with the FIPS provider.
"Asymmetric Key Decoder"
Subsection "Asymmetric Key Decoder" RSA 4
Item "RSA" 0
RSA-PSS 4
Item "RSA-PSS" DH 4
Item "DH" DHX 4
Item "DHX" DSA 4
Item "DSA" EC 4
Item "EC" ED25519 4
Item "ED25519" ED448 4
Item "ED448" X25519 4
Item "X25519" X448 4
Item "X448" SM2 4
Item "SM2" DER 4
Item "DER" ML-DSA-44 4
Item "ML-DSA-44" ML-DSA-65 4
Item "ML-DSA-65" ML-DSA-87 4
Item "ML-DSA-87" ML-KEM-512 4
Item "ML-KEM-512" ML-KEM-768 4
Item "ML-KEM-768" ML-KEM-1024 4
Item "ML-KEM-1024" SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s" SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f" SLH-DSA-SHA2-192s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-192s" SLH-DSA-SHA2-192f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-192f" SLH-DSA-SHA2-256s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-256s" SLH-DSA-SHA2-256f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHA2-256f" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128s" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128f" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192s" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-192f" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256s 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256s" SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f 4
Item "SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f"
In addition to this provider, all of these decoding algorithms are also
available in the default provider. Some of these algorithms may be used in
combination with the FIPS provider.
Stores
Subsection "Stores" file 4
Item "file" 0
"org.openssl.winstore, see OSSL_STORE-winstore\|(7)" 4
Item "org.openssl.winstore, see OSSL_STORE-winstore"
In addition to this provider, all of these store algorithms are also
available in the default provider.
"SEE ALSO"
Header "SEE ALSO" \fBOSSL_PROVIDER-default\|(7),
openssl-core.h\|(7),
\fBopenssl-
core_dispatch.h\|(7),
provider\|(7)
HISTORY
Header "HISTORY" This functionality was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
Support for ML-DSA and <ML-KEM> was added in OpenSSL 3.5.
COPYRIGHT
Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright 2020-2025 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (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
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.