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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2018-03-20 11:09:38 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2018-03-21 07:37:06 +1000 |
| commit | b9b5e7144af84dd9b66d31ed6d009b40c5bcd514 (patch) | |
| tree | dff01cc1917b345efbb49c0e22e992fe51bf7b05 | |
| parent | 418c784b114a37fe948517ea0a257bea905b3c37 (diff) | |
Remove mentioned link between message digests and public key algorithms.
Refer #5682 This is the same but for 1.1.0
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5683)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/EVP_VerifyInit.pod | 5 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod index c40da1ea3a..9279ce7744 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod @@ -59,11 +59,6 @@ The B<EVP> interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible. -Due to the link between message digests and public key algorithms the correct -digest algorithm must be used with the correct public key type. A list of -algorithms and associated public key algorithms appears in -L<EVP_DigestInit(3)>. - When signing with DSA 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 RSA signatures. diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_VerifyInit.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_VerifyInit.pod index ffb6f140b7..ee1578a69a 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/EVP_VerifyInit.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/EVP_VerifyInit.pod @@ -51,11 +51,6 @@ The B<EVP> interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible. -Due to the link between message digests and public key algorithms the correct -digest algorithm must be used with the correct public key type. A list of -algorithms and associated public key algorithms appears in -L<EVP_DigestInit(3)>. - The call to EVP_VerifyFinal() internally finalizes a copy of the digest context. This means that calls to EVP_VerifyUpdate() and EVP_VerifyFinal() can be called later to digest and verify additional data. |