On Wed, Mar 25, 2015, Dirk Menstermann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> which API function can I use to obtain the bit strength of the key exchange
> (size of the DH or ECDH parameters)?
> 
> There is the function SSL_get_cipher_bits, but this is only for the symmetric
> cipher, not including the key exchange.
> 

This is only supported in OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later. You can call
SSL_get_server_tmp_key() to get the peer temporary key. This returns an
EVP_PKEY structue which you can then analyse further.

Check out the function ssl_print_tmp_key() in apps/s_cb.c for a simple
example.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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