<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >openssl_verify</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="OpenSSL functions" HREF="ref.openssl.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="openssl_sign" HREF="function.openssl-sign.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="openssl_x509_check_private_key" HREF="function.openssl-x509-check-private-key.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.openssl-sign.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.openssl-x509-check-private-key.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.openssl-verify" ></A >openssl_verify</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN68705" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)</P >openssl_verify -- Verify signature</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN68708" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >openssl_verify</B > ( string data, string signature, mixed pub_key_id)<BR ></BR ><DIV CLASS="warning" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="warning" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Warning</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P >This function is <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="emphasis" >EXPERIMENTAL</I ></SPAN >. The behaviour of this function, the name of this function, and anything else documented about this function may change without notice in a future release of PHP. Use this function at your own risk.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > Returns 1 if the signature is correct, 0 if it is incorrect, and -1 on error. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >openssl_verify()</B > verifies that the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >signature</I ></TT > is correct for the specified <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT > using the public key associated with <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >pub_key_id</I ></TT >. This must be the public key corresponding to the private key used for signing. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN68732" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >openssl_verify()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >// $data and $signature are assumed to contain the data and the signature // fetch public key from certificate and ready it $fp = fopen("/src/openssl-0.9.6/demos/sign/cert.pem", "r"); $cert = fread($fp, 8192); fclose($fp); $pubkeyid = openssl_get_publickey($cert); // state whether signature is okay or not $ok = openssl_verify($data, $signature, $pubkeyid); if ($ok == 1) echo "good"; elseif ($ok == 0) echo "bad"; else echo "ugly, error checking signature"; // free the key from memory openssl_free_key($pubkeyid);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.openssl-sign.html" ><B CLASS="function" >openssl_sign()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.openssl-sign.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.openssl-x509-check-private-key.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >openssl_sign</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.openssl.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >openssl_x509_check_private_key</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >