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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3 index 11d2a2940040..cf7eb2b1a672 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.10 (Pod::Simple 3.35) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.11 (Pod::Simple 3.39) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "EVP_SIGNINIT 3" -.TH EVP_SIGNINIT 3 "2019-05-28" "1.1.1c" "OpenSSL" +.TH EVP_SIGNINIT 3 "2019-09-10" "1.1.1d" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -198,9 +198,10 @@ The \fB\s-1EVP\s0\fR interface to digital signatures should almost always be use preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible. .PP -When signing with \s-1DSA\s0 private keys the random number generator must be seeded -or the operation will fail. The random number generator does not need to be -seeded for \s-1RSA\s0 signatures. +When signing with \s-1DSA\s0 private keys the random number generator must be seeded. +If the automatic seeding or reseeding of the OpenSSL \s-1CSPRNG\s0 fails due to +external circumstances (see \s-1\fBRAND\s0\fR\|(7)), the operation will fail. +This requirement does not hold for \s-1RSA\s0 signatures. .PP The call to \fBEVP_SignFinal()\fR internally finalizes a copy of the digest context. This means that calls to \fBEVP_SignUpdate()\fR and \fBEVP_SignFinal()\fR can be called @@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ The previous two bugs are fixed in the newer EVP_SignDigest*() function. \&\s-1\fBSHA1\s0\fR\|(3), \fBdgst\fR\|(1) .SH "COPYRIGHT" .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" -Copyright 2000\-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright 2000\-2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. .PP Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy |