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OpenSSL Functions

简介

This module uses the functions of » OpenSSL for generation and verification of signatures and for sealing (encrypting) and opening (decrypting) data. OpenSSL offers many features that this module currently doesn't support. Some of these may be added in the future.

需求

In order to use the OpenSSL functions you need to install the » OpenSSL package. PHP between versions 4.0.5 and 4.3.1 will work with OpenSSL >= 0.9.5. Other versions (PHP <=4.0.4 and >= 4.3.2) require OpenSSL >= 0.9.6.

Warning

You are strongly encouraged to use the most recent OpenSSL version, otherwise your web server could be vulnerable to attack.

安装

To use PHP's OpenSSL support you must also compile PHP --with-openssl[=DIR].

Note: Note to Win32 Users In order for this extension to work, there are DLL files that must be available to the Windows system PATH. See the FAQ titled "How do I add my PHP directory to the PATH on Windows" for information on how to do this. Although copying DLL files from the PHP folder into the Windows system directory also works (because the system directory is by default in the systems PATH), it is not recommended. This extension requires the following files to be in the PATH: libeay32.dll
Additionally, if you are planning to use the key generation and certificate signing functions, you will need to install a valid openssl.cnf on your system. As of PHP 4.3.0, we include a sample configuration file in the openssl folder of our win32 binary distribution. If you are using PHP 4.2.0 or later and are missing the file, you can obtain it from » the OpenSSL home page or by downloading the PHP 4.3.0 release and using the configuration file from there. PHP will search for the openssl.cnf using the following logic:

  • the OPENSSL_CONF environmental variable, if set, will be used as the path (including filename) of the configuration file.
  • the SSLEAY_CONF environmental variable, if set, will be used as the path (including filename) of the configuration file.
  • The file openssl.cnf will be assumed to be found in the default certificate area, as configured at the time that the openssl DLL was compiled. This is usually means that the default filename is c:\usr\local\ssl\openssl.cnf.

In your installation, you need to decide whether to install the configuration file at c:\usr\local\ssl\openssl.cnf or whether to install it someplace else and use environmental variables (possibly on a per-virtual-host basis) to locate the configuration file. Note that it is possible to override the default path from the script using the configargs of the functions that require a configuration file.

运行时配置

本扩展模块在 php.ini 中未定义任何配置选项。

资源类型

Key/Certificate parameters

Quite a few of the openssl functions require a key or a certificate parameter. PHP 4.0.5 and earlier have to use a key or certificate resource returned by one of the openssl_get_xxx functions. Later versions may use one of the following methods:

  • Certificates

    1. An X.509 resource returned from openssl_x509_read()
    2. A string having the format file://path/to/cert.pem; the named file must contain a PEM encoded certificate
    3. A string containing the content of a certificate, PEM encoded

  • Public/Private Keys

    1. A key resource returned from openssl_get_publickey() or openssl_get_privatekey()
    2. For public keys only: an X.509 resource
    3. A string having the format file://path/to/file.pem - the named file must contain a PEM encoded certificate/private key (it may contain both)
    4. A string containing the content of a certificate/key, PEM encoded
    5. For private keys, you may also use the syntax array($key, $passphrase) where $key represents a key specified using the file:// or textual content notation above, and $passphrase represents a string containing the passphrase for that private key

Certificate Verification

When calling a function that will verify a signature/certificate, the cainfo parameter is an array containing file and directory names that specify the locations of trusted CA files. If a directory is specified, then it must be a correctly formed hashed directory as the openssl command would use.

预定义常量

以下常量由本扩展模块定义,因此只有在本扩展模块被编译到 PHP 中,或者在运行时被动态加载后才有效。

Purpose checking flags

X509_PURPOSE_SSL_CLIENT (integer)
X509_PURPOSE_SSL_SERVER (integer)
X509_PURPOSE_NS_SSL_SERVER (integer)
X509_PURPOSE_SMIME_SIGN (integer)
X509_PURPOSE_SMIME_ENCRYPT (integer)
X509_PURPOSE_CRL_SIGN (integer)
X509_PURPOSE_ANY (integer)

Padding flags

OPENSSL_PKCS1_PADDING (integer)
OPENSSL_SSLV23_PADDING (integer)
OPENSSL_NO_PADDING (integer)
OPENSSL_PKCS1_OAEP_PADDING (integer)

Key types

OPENSSL_KEYTYPE_RSA (integer)
OPENSSL_KEYTYPE_DSA (integer)
OPENSSL_KEYTYPE_DH (integer)

PKCS7 Flags/Constants

The S/MIME functions make use of flags which are specified using a bitfield which can include one or more of the following values:

PKCS7 CONSTANTS
Constant Description
PKCS7_TEXT Adds text/plain content type headers to encrypted/signed message. If decrypting or verifying, it strips those headers from the output - if the decrypted or verified message is not of MIME type text/plain then an error will occur.
PKCS7_BINARY Normally the input message is converted to "canonical" format which is effectively using CR and LF as end of line: as required by the S/MIME specification. When this options is present, no translation occurs. This is useful when handling binary data which may not be in MIME format.
PKCS7_NOINTERN When verifying a message, certificates (if any) included in the message are normally searched for the signing certificate. With this option only the certificates specified in the extracerts parameter of openssl_pkcs7_verify() are used. The supplied certificates can still be used as untrusted CAs however.
PKCS7_NOVERIFY Do not verify the signers certificate of a signed message.
PKCS7_NOCHAIN Do not chain verification of signers certificates: that is don't use the certificates in the signed message as untrusted CAs.
PKCS7_NOCERTS When signing a message the signer's certificate is normally included - with this option it is excluded. This will reduce the size of the signed message but the verifier must have a copy of the signers certificate available locally (passed using the extracerts to openssl_pkcs7_verify() for example).
PKCS7_NOATTR Normally when a message is signed, a set of attributes are included which include the signing time and the supported symmetric algorithms. With this option they are not included.
PKCS7_DETACHED When signing a message, use cleartext signing with the MIME type multipart/signed. This is the default if you do not specify any flags to openssl_pkcs7_sign(). If you turn this option off, the message will be signed using opaque signing, which is more resistant to translation by mail relays but cannot be read by mail agents that do not support S/MIME.
PKCS7_NOSIGS Don't try and verify the signatures on a message

Note: These constants were added in 4.0.6.

Signature Algorithms

OPENSSL_ALGO_SHA1 (integer)
Used as default algorithm by openssl_sign() and openssl_verify().
OPENSSL_ALGO_MD5 (integer)
OPENSSL_ALGO_MD4 (integer)
OPENSSL_ALGO_MD2 (integer)

Note: These constants were added in 5.0.0.

Ciphers

OPENSSL_CIPHER_RC2_40 (integer)
OPENSSL_CIPHER_RC2_128 (integer)
OPENSSL_CIPHER_RC2_64 (integer)
OPENSSL_CIPHER_DES (integer)
OPENSSL_CIPHER_3DES (integer)

Note: These constants were added in 4.3.0.

Version constants

OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT (string)
OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER (integer)

Note: These constants were added in 5.2.0.

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openssl_csr_export_to_file> <openal_stream
Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007
 
add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
OpenSSL
web at mburda dot com
18-Jun-2008 04:45
There is a little problem with Matt Alexander's code below.
Both public and private key are generated internally and saved into OpenSSL class object properties but only private key is then used.
Public key is taken from an external file and if it differs from the one stored internally, OpenSSL fails to decrypt the text.
stephen_at_liberty-irm_dot_com
09-Mar-2008 11:14
This note is primarily aimed at folks storing encrypted things in MySQL as I'm unfamiliar with other database setups. If you store, for example, a credit card number that has been encrypted by openssl_public_encrypt inside of a database, the column type for the column you are storing the number in must be a blob. This is because "the result might contain arbitrary byte values" (MySQL Reference Manual). Basically, if you try to store it in a VARCHAR, LONGTEXT, etc, certain parts of the encrypted data may be dropped, truncated, etc. This will of course make the data impossible to decrypt. Hopefully this will help someone, because it had me stumped for about an hour!
jts
27-Nov-2007 10:07
Win32 users having trouble getting php_openssl to work should make sure that they replace ALL the versions of libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll, with the ones included with PHP.  This is especially true while using Apache2 and OpenSSL together, as some OpenSSL win32 packages include older versions of these two files.
daevid at daevid dot com
20-Nov-2007 02:04
There doesn't seem to be a function here to test if a cert is valid (i.e. not corrupt)... This bash snippet should help. Sorry it's not PHP. slap it in a system(); call or make it a bash script and call it that way or something...

if [ "`openssl x509 -in /etc/certs/my.crt -noout -modulus`" = "`openssl rsa -in /etc/keys/my.key -noout -modulus`" ]; then echo "Match"; else echo "Different"; fi
kurian at net4ideas dot com
29-Oct-2007 04:01
For working of openssl in windows platform IIS webserver, we need to enable in php.ini, tne copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll to the php folder (or windows's system32 folder) and add both dll's path to the window's PATH variable. It seems to be working for me after I did these changes.
mattalexx at gmail dot com
29-Aug-2007 09:16
Use this for simple public/private key encryption.

<?php

/**
 * Point to your config file
 *
 */
define("OPEN_SSL_CONF_PATH", "/usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf");
/**
 * Length of time certificate is valid (in days)
 *
 */
define("OPEN_SSL_CERT_DAYS_VALID", 365);
/**
 * Passphrase required with private key
 *
 */
define("OPEN_SSL_PASSPHRASE", "lkdfjbjeyrasdfvkajwdeblsolkdkdjfbvzslalsmdbfvksb");
/**
 * Enter description here...
 *
 */
define("OPEN_SSL_PUBKEY_PATH", "/docs/domains/mywebsite.com/docs/key.pem"); // Public key path

/**
 * A wrapper class for a simple subset of the PHP OpenSSL functions. Use for public key encryption jobs.
 *
 * <code>
 *
 * // To configure
 * // 1. Set OPEN_SSL_CONF_PATH to the path of your openssl.cnf file.
 * // 2. Set OPEN_SSL_PASSPHRASE to any passphrase.
 * // 3. Use the OpenSSL::do_csr method to generate your private and public keys (see next section).
 * // 4. Save the private key somewhere offline and save your public key somewhere on this machine.
 * // 5. Set OPEN_SSL_PUBKEY_PATH to the public key's path.
 *
 * // To generate keys
 * $ossl = new OpenSSL;
 * $ossl->do_csr();
 * $privatekey = $ossl->privatekey;
 * $publickey = $ossl->publickey;
 * unset($ossl);
 *
 * // Encrypt
 * $text = "Secret text";
 * $ossl = new OpenSSL;
 * $ossl->encrypt($text);
 * $encrypted_text = $ossl->crypttext;
 * $ekey = $ossl->ekey;
 * unset($ossl);
 *
 * // Decrypt
 * $ossl = new OpenSSL;
 * $decrypted_text = $ossl->decrypt($encrypted_text, $privatekey, $ekey);
 * unset($ossl);
 *
 * @author Matt Alexander (mattalexx@gmail.com) [based on code by Alex Poole (php@wwwcrm.com)]
 * @copyright 2007
 *
 */
class OpenSSL {
  
   public
$privatekey;
   public
$publickey;
   public
$csr;
   public
$crypttext;
   public
$ekey;
   
   public function
encrypt($plain) {
     
     
// Turn public key into resource
     
$publickey = openssl_get_publickey(is_file(OPEN_SSL_PUBKEY_PATH)? file_get_contents(OPEN_SSL_PUBKEY_PATH) : OPEN_SSL_PUBKEY_PATH);
     
     
// Encrypt
     
openssl_seal($plain, $crypttext, $ekey, array($publickey));
     
openssl_free_key($publickey);
     
     
// Set values
     
$this->crypttext = $crypttext;
     
$this->ekey = $ekey[0];
   }
 
   public function
decrypt($crypt, $privatekey, $ekey="") {
  
     
// Turn private key into resource
     
$privatekey = openssl_get_privatekey((is_file($privatekey)? file_get_contents($privatekey) : $privatekey), OPEN_SSL_PASSPHRASE);
     
     
// Decrypt
     
openssl_open($crypt, $plaintext, $ekey, $privatekey);
     
openssl_free_key($privatekey);
     
     
// Return value
     
return $plaintext;
   }

   public function
do_csr(
  
$countryName = "UK",
  
$stateOrProvinceName = "London",
  
$localityName = "Blah",
  
$organizationName = "Blah1",
  
$organizationalUnitName = "Blah2",
  
$commonName = "Joe Bloggs",
  
$emailAddress = "openssl@domain.com"
  
) {        
     
$dn = array(
        
"countryName" => $countryName,
        
"stateOrProvinceName" => $stateOrProvinceName,
        
"localityName" => $localityName,
        
"organizationName" => $organizationName,
        
"organizationalUnitName" => $organizationalUnitName,
        
"commonName" => $commonName,
        
"emailAddress" => $emailAddress
        
);
     
$config = array(
        
"config" => OPEN_SSL_CONF_PATH
        
);
     
$privkey = openssl_pkey_new();
     
$csr = openssl_csr_new($dn, $privkey, $config);
     
$sscert = openssl_csr_sign($csr, null, $privkey, OPEN_SSL_CERT_DAYS_VALID, $config);
     
openssl_x509_export($sscert, $this->publickey);
     
openssl_pkey_export($privkey, $this->privatekey, OPEN_SSL_PASSPHRASE, $config);
     
openssl_csr_export($csr, $this->csr);
   }
  
}

?>
ChronoFish
16-Aug-2007 06:17
There is a note below regarding the need to copy BOTH ssleay32.dll AND libeay32.dll to a folder in the system PATH on Win32 systems.

That is absolutely true.  It should be noted also that Windows will search the Windows system directories before it will search the PATH.  If you have existing .dlls in these directories - rename (rather than deleting in case you need to undo your changes) them and copy over the latest version of these files.

Key locations may include the /i386, /windows/system32, and ~/apache/.../modules directories.

I also updated my ~/subversion/bin directory.

-CF
igor dot gorshkov at gmail dot com
27-Apr-2007 12:31
I generate certificates in such a way.

$config = array("config" => "d:/sslcert/openssl.cnf");
$dn = array(
   "countryName" => "RU",
   "stateOrProvinceName" => "Russia",
   "localityName" => "Saint-Petersburg",
   "organizationName" => "temp",
   "organizationalUnitName" => "temp",
   "commonName" => "temp",
   "emailAddress" => "temp@temp.com"
);
$privkey_enc = openssl_pkey_new($config);
$csr = openssl_csr_new($dn, $privkey_enc, $config);
$sscert = openssl_csr_sign($csr, null, $privkey_enc, 365);
openssl_x509_export_to_file($sscert, "d:/cert_enc.crt");
openssl_pkey_export_to_file($privkey_enc, "d:/privkey_enc.pem");

As a result all the received certificates have identical serial number (00). But it should not be! How to avoid it?
dan -AT- NOSPAM danschafer DOT netTT
29-Mar-2007 06:58
Currently, all OpenSSL Functions defined in PHP only utilize the PEM format.  Use the following code to convert from DER to PEM and PEM to DER.

<?php
$pem_data
= file_get_contents($cert_path.$pem_file);
$pem2der = pem2der($pem_data);

$der_data = file_get_contents($cert_path.$der_file);
$der2pem = der2pem($der_data);

function
pem2der($pem_data) {
  
$begin = "CERTIFICATE-----";
  
$end   = "-----END";
  
$pem_data = substr($pem_data, strpos($pem_data, $begin)+strlen($begin));   
  
$pem_data = substr($pem_data, 0, strpos($pem_data, $end));
  
$der = base64_decode($pem_data);
   return
$der;
}

function
der2pem($der_data) {
  
$pem = chunk_split(base64_encode($der_data), 64, "\n");
  
$pem = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n".$pem."-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n";
   return
$pem;
}
?>
Richard Ablewhite
04-Dec-2006 10:23
Windows users be warned that you need the following file in system32:

msvcr71.dll

It has to go in system32, is not picked up from php/dlls
yabba dabba
26-Jul-2006 06:23
The php4 distribution for Windows/IIS has a README-SSL.txt which strongly implies that just the path needs to be added to the OPENSLL_CONF variable in the server's environment variables. Be sure to add the file name and extension too.

E.g.: c:\php-4.3.11\openssl\openssl.cnf
peter dot mescalchin @ geemail dot com
16-May-2006 08:34
For w32 users to enable OpenSSL support. As well as copying "libeay32.dll" to the windows system32 folder you also need to copy "ssleay32.dll".  The documentation above should probably be updated to note this.

This requirement was documented at the libcurl pages:

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/install.html#windows
php ~at~ wwwcrm dot komm
16-Nov-2005 04:47
If you want to use PHP for public / private key encryption jobs without needing to know the ins and outs of the Open SSL extension, the following may be of interest:

http://www.karenandalex.com/php_stuff/_class_OpenSSL.phps

This class was unavailable for a long while (server problems) but is now back up. Apologies to those who clicked through and got a 404

I hope it is useful to you...

Alex
beckman at purplecow dot com
08-Nov-2005 08:07
FreeBSD Ports tree php5-openssl uses openssl-0.9.8a.  This is a problem, as if you install these two ports and attempt to open an HTTPS URL within PHP, it will fail with this error from openssl_error_string(): error:140A90A1:SSL routines:func(169):reason(161) which is SSL_R_LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS or "library has no ciphers"

This is because the openssl library now requires you to load your ciphers manually -- all ciphers are not automatically loaded for you.

I don't believe the php5-openssl module has been updated to do this before opening an SSL connection (as of 5.0.5).

Using openssl-0.9.7i seems to work; symlinking libcrypto.so.3 to libcrypto.so.4 prevents the php5-openssl port from trying to install openssl-0.9.8a.  So install openssl-stable (0.9.7i) from ports first, symlink 2nd, then install php5-openssl 3rd, and you should be OK.
matt at NOSPAMopenflowsPLEASE dot org
08-Nov-2005 06:42
The openssl functions were disabled in Debian release 3.0 (woody), but as of release 3.1 (sarge) they're available again.
greensweater
31-Aug-2005 11:21
Sorry, the code in my previous note doesn't work... the last line should read:

$csr = openssl_csr_new(array('commonName'=>'MyCSR'),$pkey,$config);
greensweater
30-Aug-2005 04:54
"You need to have a valid openssl.cnf installed for this function to operate correctly" includes most openssl functions. You can force php to find your openssl.cnf file as follows:

$config = array('config'=>'/path/to/openssl.cnf');
$pkey = openssl_pkey_new($config);
$csr = openssl_csr_new('MyCSR',$pkey,$config);
skippy zuavra net
20-Oct-2004 12:38
In case you're wondering what's a "correctly hashed" directory for the use with cainfo: it's simply a directory which contains CA public certificates in PEM/X.509 format. You can get such certificates either from the CA's website (they advertise it in visible places) or from your browser. In Explorer for instance you can click on the little yellow padlock, go to the CA entry and export it.

The only trick with the directory is that file names must be in the form "hash.#". The "hash" part is the 8-digit hex hash of the certificate, while the # part is a number which serves to differentiate certificates which give the same hash (yes, it can happen with certificates coming from the same CA). Usually # is 0, but you also can use 1, 2 and so on when having more certs with the same hash.

In order to obtain the hash of a certificate you can use the openssl command line utility like this:

openssl x509 -hash -in certfile.cer | head -1
jaz at ensn dot net
16-Sep-2004 06:18
For newbies (as me):
If you want to try at home on win32, you can learn how to install apache+ssl on this url: http://tud.at/programm/apache-ssl-win32-howto.php3

Versions on English, Spanish and French.

Just I have read and install and run perfectly.
norman at rasmussen dot org
02-Feb-2004 06:43
Debian maintainers have disabled the openssl support because it seems to help break apache on startup.  (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193343 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165699)

- Norman

openssl_csr_export_to_file> <openal_stream
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