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| author | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2021-02-26 18:28:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Pauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com> | 2021-03-03 10:00:21 +1000 |
| commit | 8d05a65256294f70a3bc34b7d13cc38e41a17402 (patch) | |
| tree | 536216022d9298c0767b063aa8b0dda76345cbff /doc/man7 | |
| parent | f378755d62e1646b36683de37408dd98549bef69 (diff) | |
Resolve TODOs in signature implementations.
The DER writing errors can be ignored safely.
Document that the EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE is a hardcoded limit
for digest sizes.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14367)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/provider-digest.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/provider-digest.pod b/doc/man7/provider-digest.pod index 4f90cf8b62..a0327a85df 100644 --- a/doc/man7/provider-digest.pod +++ b/doc/man7/provider-digest.pod @@ -249,6 +249,12 @@ OSSL_FUNC_digest_size() should return the digest size. OSSL_FUNC_digest_block_size() should return the block size of the underlying digest algorithm. +=head1 BUGS + +The EVP_Digest() and EVP_DigestFinal_ex() libcrypto API calls do not +expect the digest size to be larger than EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE. Any algorithm which +produces larger digests is unusable with those API calls. + =head1 SEE ALSO L<provider(7)>, L<OSSL_PROVIDER-FIPS(7)>, L<OSSL_PROVIDER-default(7)>, |