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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-01-29 22:23:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-02-11 23:52:41 +0100 |
| commit | f41ac0eeab9d2889d44e3acf6ff1e8274d03d73e (patch) | |
| tree | ba3620a537ece73983886b7449eab118e5869223 /doc/man3/DSA_size.pod | |
| parent | dsa.h: fix preprocessor indentation (diff) | |
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Deprecate the low level DSA functions.
Use of the low level DSA functions has been informally discouraged for a
long time. We now formally deprecate them.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10977)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/DSA_size.pod b/doc/man3/DSA_size.pod index e74b32580f..473ab985ff 100644 --- a/doc/man3/DSA_size.pod +++ b/doc/man3/DSA_size.pod @@ -8,12 +8,20 @@ DSA_size, DSA_bits, DSA_security_bits - get DSA signature size, key bits or secu #include <openssl/dsa.h> +Deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, can be hidden entirely by defining +B<OPENSSL_API_COMPAT> with a suitable version value, see +L<openssl_user_macros(7)>: + int DSA_size(const DSA *dsa); int DSA_bits(const DSA *dsa); int DSA_security_bits(const DSA *dsa); =head1 DESCRIPTION +All of the functions described on this page are deprecated. +Applications should instead use L<EVP_PKEY_bits(3)>, +L<EVP_PKEY_security_bits(3)> and L<EVP_PKEY_size(3)>. + DSA_size() returns the maximum size of an ASN.1 encoded DSA signature for key B<dsa> in bytes. It can be used to determine how much memory must be allocated for a DSA signature. @@ -34,8 +42,15 @@ DSA_bits() returns the number of bits in the key. =head1 SEE ALSO +L<EVP_PKEY_bits(3)>, +L<EVP_PKEY_security_bits(3)>, +L<EVP_PKEY_size(3)>, L<DSA_new(3)>, L<DSA_sign(3)> +=head1 HISTORY + +All of these functions were deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0. + =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. |