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| author | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2000-11-29 22:37:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2000-11-29 22:37:14 +0000 |
| commit | 06676624fc148d511543586502126b3f2bf8b5dd (patch) | |
| tree | 7d0a5416a6feb7620c28d0fdb929723ce1c87195 | |
| parent | ef8b601789258de1828422836339facda82f5fb8 (diff) | |
Add a warning about the usage of the montgomery functions (if the inputs
are not reduced modulo m, the outputs won't be either).
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/BN_mod_mul_montgomery.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/BN_mod_mul_montgomery.pod b/doc/crypto/BN_mod_mul_montgomery.pod index 6452470076..ed4af7a214 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/BN_mod_mul_montgomery.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/BN_mod_mul_montgomery.pod @@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ BN_MONT_CTX_init() and BN_MONT_CTX_free() have no return values. For the other functions, 1 is returned for success, 0 on error. The error codes can be obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>. +=head1 WARNING + +The inputs must be reduced modulo B<m>, otherwise the result will be +outside the expected range. + =head1 SEE ALSO L<bn(3)|bn(3)>, L<err(3)|err(3)>, L<BN_add(3)|BN_add(3)>, |