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authorparasssh <parasssh@gmail.com>2018-08-18 01:08:52 -0700
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2018-08-20 00:09:58 +0200
commit723bd004730a773354dcdc579d62e99a7e125cee (patch)
tree0be77329ae06a1491d2b3ebb6d832998100fca37 /doc
parent4cceb185b137a0b0c57c226a76542ab2c5e4e251 (diff)
Fix typos and errors in Ed25519.pod documentation
CLA: trivial Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7005)
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diff --git a/doc/man7/Ed25519.pod b/doc/man7/Ed25519.pod
index eacc05f2ed..466e543c16 100644
--- a/doc/man7/Ed25519.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/Ed25519.pod
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ one-shot digest sign and digest verify using PureEdDSA and B<Ed25519> or B<Ed448
(see RFC8032). It has associated private and public key formats compatible with
draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-04.
-No additional parameters can be set during key generation one-shot signing or
-verification. In particular, because PureEdDSA is used, when signing or
-verifying a digest must B<NOT> be specified.
+No additional parameters can be set during key generation, one-shot signing or
+verification. In particular, because PureEdDSA is used, a digest must B<NOT> be
+specified when signing or verifying.
=head1 NOTES
The PureEdDSA algorithm does not support the streaming mechanism
of other signature algorithms using, for example, EVP_DigestUpdate().
The message to sign or verify must be passed using the one-shot
-EVP_DigestSign() asn EVP_DigestVerify() functions.
+EVP_DigestSign() and EVP_DigestVerify() functions.
-When calling EVP_DigestSignInit() or EVP_DigestSignUpdate() the
+When calling EVP_DigestSignInit() or EVP_DigestVerifyInit(), the
digest parameter B<MUST> be set to B<NULL>.
Applications wishing to sign certificates (or other structures such as