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| author | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-07-28 15:45:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-08-18 10:20:03 +0200 |
| commit | 58135cb3c020805354ecc869aca040934d1299c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e80d4d291b656cfb1819b05b515cd0e62cd803a /doc/man7 | |
| parent | 3a1596f4e3d710c163279a20e6b844d371886e73 (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)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod b/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod index eed83237c3..d4c8d9e36e 100644 --- a/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod +++ b/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ per-operation basis. =item "pub" (B<OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PUB_KEY>) <octet string> -The public key value in EC point format. +The public key value in encoded EC point format. This parameter is used +when importing or exporting the public key value with the EVP_PKEY_fromdata() +and EVP_PKEY_todata() functions. =item "priv" (B<OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PRIV_KEY>) <unsigned integer> |