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| author | Patrick Steuer <patrick.steuer@de.ibm.com> | 2017-12-05 00:36:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2017-12-09 21:38:41 +0100 |
| commit | 5c5eb286afc046094cf48ecc49b10d04a1a3146c (patch) | |
| tree | 3b573136077c4c05746c7d05cf1668c471a74fee /doc | |
| parent | 27ab91951c96364351f1ea0652dbf14622440345 (diff) | |
doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod: add EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steuer <patrick.steuer@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4843)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod index d82468c562..29ebf74765 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ EVP_enc_null int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_padding(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *x, int padding); int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_key_length(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *x, int keylen); int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, int type, int arg, void *ptr); + int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *key); const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_get_cipherbyname(const char *name); const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_get_cipherbynid(int nid); @@ -274,6 +275,11 @@ is not supported. EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl() allows various cipher specific parameters to be determined and set. +EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key() generates a random key of the appropriate length +based on the cipher context. The EVP_CIPHER can provide its own random key +generation routine to support keys of a specific form. B<Key> must point to a +buffer at least as big as the value returned by EVP_CIPHER_CTX_key_length(). + =head1 RETURN VALUES EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() returns a pointer to a newly created @@ -314,6 +320,8 @@ EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cipher() returns an B<EVP_CIPHER> structure. EVP_CIPHER_param_to_asn1() and EVP_CIPHER_asn1_to_param() return greater than zero for success and zero or a negative number. +EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key() returns 1 for success. + =head1 CIPHER LISTING All algorithms have a fixed key length unless otherwise stated. |