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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2017-05-25 15:18:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2017-05-25 15:35:45 +0100 |
| commit | e6ec6773c4ad10d6b4f260b3a2086547f2153ef1 (patch) | |
| tree | 99368c9cb29eb9c29caba1c96363b3b13b251929 /doc | |
| parent | b9ff4ec746daafe520e36c1489a2f843401ab140 (diff) | |
Document that HMAC() with a NULL md is not thread safe
Fixes #3541
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3554)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/HMAC.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/HMAC.pod b/doc/crypto/HMAC.pod index 87f7e33086..219c9ba208 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/HMAC.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/HMAC.pod @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ B<key_len> bytes long. It places the result in B<md> (which must have space for the output of the hash function, which is no more than B<EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE> bytes). If B<md> is NULL, the digest is placed in a static array. The size of -the output is placed in B<md_len>, unless it is B<NULL>. +the output is placed in B<md_len>, unless it is B<NULL>. Note: passing a NULL +value for B<md> to use the static array is not thread safe. B<evp_md> can be EVP_sha1(), EVP_ripemd160() etc. |