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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-08-23 14:54:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-08-24 13:01:15 +0200 |
| commit | f3b8d77f99c84e39c48599ad54366e806f3b9478 (patch) | |
| tree | 60c7c066e8df668464603e4f92463fc0ada44dc1 /doc | |
| parent | 703170d4b9da1b3adc0e4d87719a5156080b2dca (diff) | |
Update EVP_MAC.pod
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9667)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod | 18 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod index 4358ca319a..afb54e3ef7 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod @@ -205,28 +205,24 @@ Some MACs do not support this option. =item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_ENGINE ("engine") <utf8string> -=item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_MD ("md") <utf8string> +=item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_PROPERTIES ("properties") <utf8string> =item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_DIGEST ("digest") <utf8string> =item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_CIPHER ("cipher") <utf8string> -=item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_ALGORITHM ("algorithm") <utf8string> +For MAC implementations that use an underlying computation cipher 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. -For MAC implementations that use an underlying computation algorithm, -these parameters set what the algorithm should be, and the engine that -implements the algorithm if needed. - -The value is always the name of the intended engine or algorithm. +The value is always the name of the intended engine, algorithm, +or the properties. Note that not all algorithms may support all digests. HMAC does not support variable output length digests such as SHAKE128 or SHAKE256. -Also note that OSSL_MAC_PARAM_ALGORITHM can be use generically instead -of OSSL_MAC_PARAM_MD, OSSL_MAC_PARAM_DIGEST or OSSL_MAC_PARAM_CIPHER, -and that OSSL_MAC_PARAM_MD and OSSL_MAC_PARAM_DIGEST are also interchangable. - =item OSSL_MAC_PARAM_SIZE <unsigned int> For MAC implementations that support it, set the output size that |