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authorTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2022-07-28 15:45:02 +0200
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2022-08-18 10:22:04 +0200
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parentd6d977c807343112d137ced096dece84303ded46 (diff)
Clarify documentation in regards to EC key parameters
Also clarify that EVP_PKEY_fromdata ignores parameters that are unknown or incorrect for given selection. Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18902) (cherry picked from commit 58135cb3c020805354ecc869aca040934d1299c8)
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@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ the settable parameters that can be used with EVP_PKEY_fromdata().
I<selection> is described in L</Selections>.
See L<OSSL_PARAM(3)> for the use of B<OSSL_PARAM> as parameter descriptor.
+Parameters in the I<params> array that are not among the settable parameters
+for the given I<selection> are ignored.
+
=head2 Selections
The following constants can be used for I<selection>: