OSSL_CALLBACK, OSSL_PASSPHRASE_CALLBACK - OpenSSL Core type to define callbacks
#include <openssl/core.h>
typedef int (OSSL_CALLBACK)(const OSSL_PARAM params[], void *arg);
typedef int (OSSL_PASSPHRASE_CALLBACK)(char *pass, size_t pass_size,
size_t *pass_len,
const OSSL_PARAM params[],
void *arg);
For certain events or activities, provider functionality may need help from the
application or the calling OpenSSL libraries themselves. For example, user
input or direct (possibly optional) user output could be implemented this way.
Callback functions themselves are always provided by or through
the calling OpenSSL libraries, along with a generic pointer to data
arg. As far as the function receiving the pointer to the function
pointer and arg is concerned, the data that arg points at is
opaque, and the pointer should simply be passed back to the callback
function when it's called.
- OSSL_CALLBACK
- This is a generic callback function. When calling this callback function,
the caller is expected to build an OSSL_PARAM(3) array of data it
wants or is expected to pass back, and pass that as params, as well
as the opaque data pointer it received, as arg.
- OSSL_PASSPHRASE_CALLBACK
- This is a specialised callback function, used specifically to prompt the
user for a passphrase. When calling this callback function, a buffer to
store the pass phrase needs to be given with pass, and its size
with pass_size. The length of the prompted pass phrase will be
given back in *pass_len.
Additional parameters can be passed with the
OSSL_PARAM(3) array params,
The types described here were added in OpenSSL 3.0.
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