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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2006-07-08 11:13:01 +0000
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2006-07-08 11:13:01 +0000
commit64cee65ebc4a5a23d9f6d6f73cb25e78a80af5c2 (patch)
tree4032097fd1e2acd608d132fbc3ef83cce3c5b94c /doc
parentba544377fb48336b4e29fd494a7faf7c0ba6b1dc (diff)
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_PKEY_sign.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_PKEY_sign.pod
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--- a/doc/crypto/EVP_PKEY_sign.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/EVP_PKEY_sign.pod
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
=head1 NAME
-EVP_PKEY_encrypt_init, EVP_PKEY_encrypt - encrypt using a public key algorithm
+EVP_PKEY_sign_init, EVP_PKEY_sign - sign using a public key algorithm
=head1 SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover.pod
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index 0000000000..a3d997aaaf
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@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover_init, EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover - recover signature using a public key algorithm
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ #include <openssl/evp.h>
+
+ int EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover_init(EVP_PKEY_CTX *ctx);
+ int EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover(EVP_PKEY_CTX *ctx,
+ unsigned char *rout, size_t *routlen,
+ const unsigned char *sig, size_t siglen);
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+The EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover_init() function initializes a public key algorithm
+context using key B<pkey> for a verify recover operation.
+
+The EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover() function recovers signed data
+using B<ctx>. The signature is specified using the B<sig> and
+B<siglen> parameters. If B<rout> is B<NULL> then the maximum size of the output
+buffer is written to the B<routlen> parameter. If B<rout> is not B<NULL> then
+before the call the B<routlen> parameter should contain the length of the
+B<rout> buffer, if the call is successful recovered data is written to
+B<rout> and the amount of data written to B<routlen>.
+
+=head1 NOTES
+
+Normally an application is only interested in whether a signature verification
+operation is successful in those cases the EVP_verify() function should be
+used.
+
+Sometimes however it is useful to obtain the data originally signed using a
+signing operation. Only certain public key algorithms can recover a signature
+in this way (for example RSA in PKCS padding mode).
+
+After the call to EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover_init() algorithm specific control
+operations can be performed to set any appropriate parameters for the
+operation.
+
+The function EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover() can be called more than once on the same
+context if several operations are performed using the same parameters.
+
+=head1 RETURN VALUES
+
+EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover_init() and EVP_PKEY_verifyrecover() return 1 for success
+and 0 or a negative value for failure. In particular a return value of -2
+indicates the operation is not supported by the public key algorithm.
+
+=head1 EXAMPLE
+
+Recover digest originally signed using PKCS#1 and SHA256 digest:
+
+[to be added]
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<EVP_PKEY_CTX_new(3)|EVP_PKEY_CTX_new(3)>,
+L<EVP_PKEY_encrypt(3)|EVP_PKEY_encrypt(3)>,
+L<EVP_PKEY_decrypt(3)|EVP_PKEY_decrypt(3)>,
+L<EVP_PKEY_sign(3)|EVP_PKEY_sign(3)>,
+L<EVP_PKEY_verify(3)|EVP_PKEY_verify(3)>,
+L<EVP_PKEY_derive(3)|EVP_PKEY_derive(3)>
+
+=head1 HISTORY
+
+These functions were first added to OpenSSL 0.9.9.
+
+=cut