GENERIC PUBLIC KEY SIGNATURE API(9)

💖 Generic Public Key Signature API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Generic Publ...ignature API(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the page for the Public Key Signature API, and it's lowkey iconic.

The Public Key Signature API is used with algorithms of type CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_SIG — those are listed as type "sig" in /proc/crypto, no cap 💅.

🔎 SEE ALSO 🔎

okay so if you wanna keep reading (and you should, bestie), these are the references:

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/sig.h
• struct crypto_sig(9)
• struct sig_alg(9)
• crypto_alloc_sig(9)
• crypto_free_sig(9)
• crypto_sig_keysize(9)
• crypto_sig_digestsize(9)
• crypto_sig_maxsize(9)
• crypto_sig_sign(9)
• crypto_sig_verify(9)
• crypto_sig_set_pubkey(9)
• crypto_sig_set_privkey(9)

mwah 💋 source/version footer vibes: ./include/crypto, October 2026 — periodt.