Document X509_verify_ex() and X509_REQ_verify_ex()

Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11507)

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_sign.pod b/doc/man3/X509_sign.pod
index ffc4441397..dca5c3cd72 100644
--- a/doc/man3/X509_sign.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/X509_sign.pod
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx, X509_verify, X509_REQ_sign, X509_REQ_sign_ctx,
-X509_REQ_verify, X509_CRL_sign, X509_CRL_sign_ctx, X509_CRL_verify -
-sign or verify certificate, certificate request or CRL signature
+X509_sign, X509_sign_ctx, X509_verify_ex, X509_verify, X509_REQ_sign,
+X509_REQ_sign_ctx, X509_REQ_verify_ex, X509_REQ_verify, X509_CRL_sign,
+X509_CRL_sign_ctx, X509_CRL_verify
+- sign or verify certificate, certificate request or CRL signature
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -12,27 +13,35 @@ sign or verify certificate, certificate request or CRL signature
 
  int X509_sign(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  int X509_sign_ctx(X509 *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
- int X509_verify(X509 *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
+ int X509_verify_ex(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, OPENSSL_CTX *libctx, const char *propq);
+ int X509_verify(X509 *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey;
 
  int X509_REQ_sign(X509_REQ *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  int X509_REQ_sign_ctx(X509_REQ *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
- int X509_REQ_verify(X509_REQ *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
+ int X509_REQ_verify_ex(X509_REQ *a, EVP_PKEY *pkey, OPENSSL_CTX *libctx,
+                        const char *propq);
+ int X509_REQ_verify(X509_REQ *a, EVP_PKEY *pkey);
 
  int X509_CRL_sign(X509_CRL *x, EVP_PKEY *pkey, const EVP_MD *md);
  int X509_CRL_sign_ctx(X509_CRL *x, EVP_MD_CTX *ctx);
- int X509_CRL_verify(X509_CRL *a, EVP_PKEY *r);
+ int X509_CRL_verify(X509_CRL *a, EVP_PKEY *pkey);
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-X509_sign() signs certificate B<x> using private key B<pkey> and message
-digest B<md> and sets the signature in B<x>. X509_sign_ctx() also signs
-certificate B<x> but uses the parameters contained in digest context B<ctx>.
+X509_sign() signs certificate I<x> using private key I<pkey> and message
+digest I<md> and sets the signature in I<x>. X509_sign_ctx() also signs
+certificate I<x> but uses the parameters contained in digest context I<ctx>.
 
-X509_verify() verifies the signature of certificate B<x> using public key
-B<pkey>. Only the signature is checked: no other checks (such as certificate
-chain validity) are performed.
+X509_verify_ex() verifies the signature of certificate I<x> using public key
+I<pkey>. Any cryptographic algorithms required for the verification are fetched
+using the library context I<libctx> and the property query string I<propq>. Only
+the signature is checked: no other checks (such as certificate chain validity)
+are performed.
 
-X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_verify(),
+X509_verify() is the same as X509_verify_ex() except that the default library
+context and property query string are used.
+
+X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_verify_ex(), X509_REQ_verify(),
 X509_CRL_sign(), X509_CRL_sign_ctx() and X509_CRL_verify() sign and verify
 certificate requests and CRLs respectively.
 
@@ -55,10 +64,10 @@ X509_sign(), X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx(),
 X509_CRL_sign() and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() return the size of the signature
 in bytes for success and zero for failure.
 
-X509_verify(), X509_REQ_verify() and X509_CRL_verify() return 1 if the
-signature is valid and 0 if the signature check fails. If the signature
-could not be checked at all because it was invalid or some other error
-occurred then -1 is returned.
+X509_verify_ex(), X509_verify(), X509_REQ_verify_ex(), X509_REQ_verify() and
+X509_CRL_verify() return 1 if the signature is valid and 0 if the signature
+check fails. If the signature could not be checked at all because it was invalid
+or some other error occurred then -1 is returned.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
@@ -77,7 +86,8 @@ L<X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(3)>,
 L<X509_NAME_print_ex(3)>,
 L<X509_new(3)>,
 L<X509V3_get_d2i(3)>,
-L<X509_verify_cert(3)>
+L<X509_verify_cert(3)>,
+L<OPENSSL_CTX(3)>
 
 =head1 HISTORY
 
@@ -87,6 +97,8 @@ available in all versions of OpenSSL.
 The X509_sign_ctx(), X509_REQ_sign_ctx()
 and X509_CRL_sign_ctx() functions were added OpenSSL 1.0.1.
 
+X509_verify_ex() and X509_REQ_verify_ex() were added in OpenSSL 3.0.
+
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
 Copyright 2015-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.