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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2019-09-07 10:47:37 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2019-09-07 16:01:53 +1000 |
| commit | c69561de00a032f85ec92d30c1e0bfa761b81dfd (patch) | |
| tree | 7a6d46722e9f51ef2a5bf83d0f15f5e174c84af8 /doc | |
| parent | 96d7e2733ef66e364f89aa394a6bdd49df48f2ae (diff) | |
Add 'engine' param to KDFs
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9770)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod index fc09d5fad8..2069e7f0ee 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod @@ -166,18 +166,22 @@ The default value, if any, is implementation dependent. =item B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_PROPERTIES> ("properties") <UTF8 string> -Some KDF implementations use other cryptographic algorithms, this parameter -sets what property query will be used to fetch the implementation. - =item B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_MAC> ("mac") <UTF8 string> -Some KDF implementations use a MAC as an underlying computation -algorithm, this parameter sets what the MAC algorithm should be. - =item B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_DIGEST> ("digest") <UTF8 string> -For MAC implementations that use a message digest as an underlying computation -algorithm, this parameter sets what the digest algorithm should be. +=item B<OSSL_MAC_PARAM_ENGINE> ("engine") <utf8string> + +For KDF implementations that use an underlying computation MAC or +digest, these parameters set what the algorithm should be, and the +engine that implements the algorithm or the properties to fetch it +by if needed. + +The value is always the name of the intended engine, algorithm, +or the properties. + +Note that not all algorithms may support all possible underlying +implementations. =item B<OSSL_KDF_PARAM_KEY> ("key") <octet string> |