I need some help using OpenSSL to generate a signature of a block of data using C (Windows and Linux). The application has to do with Google authentication. The instructions from Google's documentation are:
"Sign the UTF-8 representation of the input using SHA256withRSA (also known as RSASSA-PKCS1-V1_5-SIGN with the SHA-256 hash function) with the private key obtained from the Google Developers Console. The output will be a byte array."
The private key is a .p12 file containing 1660 bytes of binary data.
Do I use the RSA_sign() API for this? If so am I supposed to hash the data first? Using what key value? I assume the RSA * parameter is supposed to hold the private key? How does it get loaded? I have used the HMAC function to generate a SHA hash, but I'm a bit lost here - any help or sample code would be appreciated. (And yes, I know Google has libraries to do this, but none for C, which I need to use).