BN_SECURITY_BITS(3ossl)

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version 15.1 · 3 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to the BN_SECURITY_BITS(3ossl) manual page — BN_security_bits returns bits of security based on given numbers ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <openssl/bn.h>

int BN_security_bits(int L, int N);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so BN_security_bits() returns the number of bits of security provided by a specific algorithm and a particular key size. The bits of security is defined in NIST SP800-57, periodt. Currently, BN_security_bits() support two types of asymmetric algorithms: the FFC (Finite Field Cryptography) and IFC (Integer Factorization Cryptography). It's giving crypto taxonomy 💅.

  • For FFC, e.g., DSA and DH, both parameters L and N are used to decide the bits of security, where L is the size of the public key and N is the size of the private key 🫶.
  • For IFC, e.g., RSA, only L is used and it's commonly considered to be the key size (modulus) ✨.

No cap, those are the two types it currently supports 🎀.

🎀 RETURN VALUES 🎀

Number of security bits. That's it. That's the return value, and it ate 🫶.

🦋 NOTES 🦋

ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) is not covered by the BN_security_bits() function. The symmetric algorithms are not covered neither 🙈. So if you were looking for ECC or symmetric algo security bits here, bestie, this function is not the one.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

The BN_security_bits() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0 — vintage but iconic ✨.

Copyright 2017-2019 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.

mwah 💋 source/version: OpenSSL 3.5.6, dated 2026-04-07, manual name BN_SECURITY_BITS(3ossl). Bye bestie, go compute those security bits responsibly 🎀

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