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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/openssl/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | crypto/openssl/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod b/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod index 889c7a1e0708..0d76b8c3f928 100644 --- a/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod +++ b/crypto/openssl/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod @@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ B<dsa> is the signer's public key. The B<type> parameter is ignored. -The PRNG must be seeded before DSA_sign() (or DSA_sign_setup()) +The random generator must be seeded when DSA_sign() (or DSA_sign_setup()) is called. +If the automatic seeding or reseeding of the OpenSSL CSPRNG fails due to +external circumstances (see L<RAND(7)>), the operation will fail. =head1 RETURN VALUES @@ -54,11 +56,12 @@ Standard, DSS), ANSI X9.30 =head1 SEE ALSO L<DSA_new(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<RAND_bytes(3)>, -L<DSA_do_sign(3)> +L<DSA_do_sign(3)>, +L<RAND(7)> =head1 COPYRIGHT -Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright 2000-2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy |