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| author | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2021-06-30 11:17:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2021-07-01 16:08:42 +0200 |
| commit | f775b5c4857d1fef67f487c2ec6017b1f1c6eb19 (patch) | |
| tree | f034d965566b233faf9090b60fe7245a88ae6972 /doc | |
| parent | cadb6f0e32e516c2b530c02f03905fa98920a2d3 (diff) | |
doc: Mention the update of der data pointers in d2i/i2d
Fixes #15958
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15973)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/d2i_PrivateKey.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/d2i_PrivateKey.pod b/doc/man3/d2i_PrivateKey.pod index 4e3f20f8b3..31732e89c8 100644 --- a/doc/man3/d2i_PrivateKey.pod +++ b/doc/man3/d2i_PrivateKey.pod @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ These functions are similar to the d2i_X509() functions; see L<d2i_X509(3)>. =head1 NOTES +All the functions that operate on data in memory update the data pointer I<*pp> +after a successful operation, just like the other d2i and i2d functions; +see L<d2i_X509(3)>. + All these functions use DER format and unencrypted keys. Applications wishing to encrypt or decrypt private keys should use other functions such as d2i_PKCS8PrivateKey() instead. |