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diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.3 index baee35a2d670..f3935f87df58 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.23) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.27 (Pod::Simple 3.28) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ . ds PI \(*p . ds L" `` . ds R" '' +. ds C` +. ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. @@ -48,17 +50,24 @@ .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. -.ie \nF \{\ -. de IX -. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" +.\" +.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. +.de IX .. -. nr % 0 -. rr F -.\} -.el \{\ -. de IX +.nr rF 0 +.if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 +.if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{ +. if \nF \{ +. de IX +. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. +. if !\nF==2 \{ +. nr % 0 +. nr F 2 +. \} +. \} .\} +.rr rF .\" .\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2). .\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts. @@ -124,7 +133,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3" -.TH EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3 "2013-02-11" "1.0.1e" "OpenSSL" +.TH EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3 "2015-01-15" "1.0.1l" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -146,7 +155,7 @@ EVP_DigestVerifyInit, EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate, EVP_DigestVerifyFinal \- EVP signa The \s-1EVP\s0 signature routines are a high level interface to digital signatures. .PP \&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyInit()\fR sets up verification context \fBctx\fR to use digest -\&\fBtype\fR from \s-1ENGINE\s0 \fBimpl\fR and public key \fBpkey\fR. \fBctx\fR must be initialized +\&\fBtype\fR from \s-1ENGINE \s0\fBimpl\fR and public key \fBpkey\fR. \fBctx\fR must be initialized with \fIEVP_MD_CTX_init()\fR before calling this function. If \fBpctx\fR is not \s-1NULL\s0 the \&\s-1EVP_PKEY_CTX\s0 of the verification operation will be written to \fB*pctx\fR: this can be used to set alternative verification options. @@ -165,7 +174,7 @@ or a negative value for failure. In particular a return value of \-2 indicates the operation is not supported by the public key algorithm. .PP Unlike other functions the return value 0 from \fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR only -indicates that the signature did not not verify successfully (that is tbs did +indicates that the signature did not verify successfully (that is tbs did not match the original data or the signature was of invalid form) it is not an indication of a more serious error. .PP @@ -178,14 +187,14 @@ transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible. .PP In previous versions of OpenSSL there was a link between message digest types and public key algorithms. This meant that \*(L"clone\*(R" digests such as \fIEVP_dss1()\fR -needed to be used to sign using \s-1SHA1\s0 and \s-1DSA\s0. This is no longer necessary and +needed to be used to sign using \s-1SHA1\s0 and \s-1DSA.\s0 This is no longer necessary and the use of clone digest is now discouraged. .PP For some key types and parameters the random number generator must be seeded or the operation will fail. .PP The call to \fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR internally finalizes a copy of the digest -context. This means that calls to \fIEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR and \fIEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR can +context. This means that \fIEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR and \fIEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR can be called later to digest and verify additional data. .PP Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized the context must |