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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2020-01-08 11:08:06 +0100
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2020-03-08 22:41:25 +0100
commit53418932416594fda43b58ff64d455457b05c969 (patch)
tree20e033b12c24992474cac6ec478cf87c30cc1730 /doc
parenteed9d03b4f6b7df80a34d274b551f48ae8295ef4 (diff)
DOC: Make EVP_SignInit.pod conform with man-pages(7)
Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit 03d65ca2095777cf6314ad813eb7de5779c9b93d) Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11232)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man3/EVP_SignInit.pod22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_SignInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_SignInit.pod
index 65df4acfba..becfed4ad3 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_SignInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_SignInit.pod
@@ -20,23 +20,23 @@ EVP_SignInit, EVP_SignInit_ex, EVP_SignUpdate, EVP_SignFinal
The EVP signature routines are a high level interface to digital
signatures.
-EVP_SignInit_ex() sets up signing context B<ctx> to use digest
-B<type> from ENGINE B<impl>. B<ctx> must be created with
+EVP_SignInit_ex() sets up signing context I<ctx> to use digest
+I<type> from B<ENGINE> I<impl>. I<ctx> must be created with
EVP_MD_CTX_new() before calling this function.
-EVP_SignUpdate() hashes B<cnt> bytes of data at B<d> into the
-signature context B<ctx>. This function can be called several times on the
-same B<ctx> to include additional data.
+EVP_SignUpdate() hashes I<cnt> bytes of data at I<d> into the
+signature context I<ctx>. This function can be called several times on the
+same I<ctx> to include additional data.
-EVP_SignFinal() signs the data in B<ctx> using the private key B<pkey> and
-places the signature in B<sig>. B<sig> must be at least C<EVP_PKEY_size(pkey)>
-bytes in size. B<s> is an OUT parameter, and not used as an IN parameter.
+EVP_SignFinal() signs the data in I<ctx> using the private key I<pkey> and
+places the signature in I<sig>. I<sig> must be at least C<EVP_PKEY_size(pkey)>
+bytes in size. I<s> is an OUT parameter, and not used as an IN parameter.
The number of bytes of data written (i.e. the length of the signature)
-will be written to the integer at B<s>, at most C<EVP_PKEY_size(pkey)> bytes
+will be written to the integer at I<s>, at most C<EVP_PKEY_size(pkey)> bytes
will be written.
-EVP_SignInit() initializes a signing context B<ctx> to use the default
-implementation of digest B<type>.
+EVP_SignInit() initializes a signing context I<ctx> to use the default
+implementation of digest I<type>.
=head1 RETURN VALUES