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| author | Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com> | 2018-06-12 03:27:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2018-06-12 14:28:35 +0200 |
| commit | 8fe4c0b001f85c5a918c6a6d4687813ea3d2945f (patch) | |
| tree | fcf187a8305cba26751780570e43c213984597aa | |
| parent | Make ck_errf.pl ignore commented out error generation (diff) | |
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Deprecate DSA_sign_setup() in the documentation
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6460)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod b/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod index 458e16a3c6..4ca7756db3 100644 --- a/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod +++ b/doc/man3/DSA_sign.pod @@ -23,13 +23,12 @@ digest B<dgst> using the private key B<dsa> and places its ASN.1 DER encoding at B<sigret>. The length of the signature is places in *B<siglen>. B<sigret> must point to DSA_size(B<dsa>) bytes of memory. -DSA_sign_setup() may be used to precompute part of the signing -operation in case signature generation is time-critical. It expects -B<dsa> to contain DSA parameters. It places the precomputed values -in newly allocated B<BIGNUM>s at *B<kinvp> and *B<rp>, after freeing -the old ones unless *B<kinvp> and *B<rp> are NULL. These values may -be passed to DSA_sign() in B<dsa-E<gt>kinv> and B<dsa-E<gt>r>. -B<ctx> is a pre-allocated B<BN_CTX> or NULL. +DSA_sign_setup() is defined only for backward binary compatibility and +should not be used. +Since OpenSSL 1.1.0 the DSA type is opaque and the output of +DSA_sign_setup() cannot be used anyway: calling this function will only +cause overhead, and does not affect the actual signature +(pre-)computation. DSA_verify() verifies that the signature B<sigbuf> of size B<siglen> matches a given message digest B<dgst> of size B<len>. |