Cryptographic Token Interface Standard

PKCS#11

DSA without hashing

The DSA without hashing mechanism, denoted CKM_DSA, is a mechanism for single-part signatures and verification based on the Digital Signature Algorithm defined in FIPS PUB 186-2. (This mechanism corresponds only to the part of DSA that processes the 20-byte hash value; it does not compute the hash value.)

For the purposes of this mechanism, a DSA signature is a 40-byte string, corresponding to the concatenation of the DSA values r and s, each represented most-significant byte first.

It does not have a parameter.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table: 




 Table 51, DSA: Key And Data Length   
Function Key type 

Input length

 

Output length

   


C_Sign1 DSA private key 

20

 

40

   


C_Verify1 DSA public key 

20, 402

 

N/A

  

 



1 Single-part operations only.


2 Data length, signature length.


For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize  fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO  structure specify the supported range of DSA prime sizes, in bits.


 
 



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