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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2014-08-22 18:04:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Emilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org> | 2014-08-27 19:50:15 +0200 |
| commit | 2083f7c465d07867dd9867b8742bb71c03d1f203 (patch) | |
| tree | 82854e02b8f8ca1e825c02232c2c7281a4b54586 /doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod | |
| parent | 1f2b943254ce590867717375e4f364860a9b7154 (diff) | |
RT3065: automatically generate a missing EC public key
When d2i_ECPrivateKey reads a private key with a missing (optional) public key,
generate one automatically from the group and private key.
Reviewed-by: Dr Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
(cherry picked from commit ed383f847156940e93f256fed78599873a4a9b28)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod b/doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod index b762cbcb73..2027569f44 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/EC_KEY_new.pod @@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ flags currently defined - EC_PKEY_NO_PARAMETERS and EC_PKEY_NO_PUBKEY. These fl converted into ASN1 in a call to i2d_ECPrivateKey. If EC_PKEY_NO_PARAMETERS is set then the public parameters for the curve are not encoded along with the private key. If EC_PKEY_NO_PUBKEY is set then the public key is not encoded along with the private key. +When reading a private key encoded with EC_PKEY_NO_PUBKEY, +d2i_ECPrivateKey generates the missing public key +automatically. Private keys encoded with EC_PKEY_NO_PARAMETERS cannot +be loaded using d2i_ECPrivateKey. + The functions EC_KEY_get_conv_form and EC_KEY_set_conv_form get and set the point_conversion_form for the B<key>. For a description of point_conversion_forms please refer to L<EC_POINT_new(3)|EC_POINT_new(3)>. |