Need Replacement for Deprecated function.

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Thu Dec 2 11:07:39 UTC 2021



On 01/12/2021 19:07, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> Another DH problem:  I have a PEM for which DH_bits() says 512.
> 
> https://www.openssl.org/docs/man3.0/man3/DH_bits.html has
> EVP_PKEY_get_bits() as a see-also, but that returns 4096.
> 
> Is it more likely I've mis-loaded the file (via a BIO),
> or is EVP_PKEY_get_bits() something different?  It's doc
> talks about the key in the pkey, which is suspiciously
> far from the DH params...
> 

EVP_PKEY_get_bits() should be equivalent to DH_bits() (for a DH file). I 
would definitely double-check that you are not mis-loading something. If 
the problem persists then you might want to raise a github issue.

Matt


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