Cryptographic Token Interface Standard |
PKCS#11 |
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 220, DSA: Key And Data Length
Function | Key type | ||
C_Sign1 | DSA private key | ||
C_Verify1 | DSA public key |
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.