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| author | Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-07-11 23:31:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-07-11 23:31:36 +0000 |
| commit | 0758ab5ea778e4ba36d2150af1bba602a48d6467 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c30591ac90cb5e07a0763793709fd1056b67f57 /doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod | |
| parent | 2b8b5455829304396e38200c205612c4dc57c052 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod index b6e62ce7f610..620a623ab620 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod @@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ will occur. Older versions of this documentation wrongly stated that calls to EVP_SignUpdate() could not be made after calling EVP_SignFinal(). +Since the private key is passed in the call to EVP_SignFinal() any error +relating to the private key (for example an unsuitable key and digest +combination) will not be indicated until after potentially large amounts of +data have been passed through EVP_SignUpdate(). + +It is not possible to change the signing parameters using these function. + +The previous two bugs are fixed in the newer EVP_SignDigest*() function. + =head1 SEE ALSO L<EVP_VerifyInit(3)|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>, |