[openssl-users] How to get encryption strength?

[Dirk Menstermann]

Very helpful. Thank you Steve.

Dirk

On 25.03.2015 16:35, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, Dirk Menstermann wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> which API function can I use to obtain the bit strength of the key exchange
>> (size of the DH or ECDH parameters)?
>>
>> There is the function SSL_get_cipher_bits, but this is only for the symmetric
>> cipher, not including the key exchange.
>>
> 
> This is only supported in OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later. You can call
> SSL_get_server_tmp_key() to get the peer temporary key. This returns an
> EVP_PKEY structue which you can then analyse further.
> 
> Check out the function ssl_print_tmp_key() in apps/s_cb.c for a simple
> example.
> 
> Steve.
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