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| author | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-07-28 15:45:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-08-18 10:22:04 +0200 |
| commit | e2fccd7b1eed8d4ec4fe74eae9320ced2bac203b (patch) | |
| tree | 815ef0605668c3eb809ab3bb5d837301acb109e8 /doc | |
| parent | d6d977c807343112d137ced096dece84303ded46 (diff) | |
Clarify documentation in regards to EC key parameters
Also clarify that EVP_PKEY_fromdata ignores parameters that
are unknown or incorrect for given selection.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18902)
(cherry picked from commit 58135cb3c020805354ecc869aca040934d1299c8)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_fromdata.pod | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_fromdata.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_fromdata.pod index fdab94cd4f..158d1bf42d 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_fromdata.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_fromdata.pod @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ the settable parameters that can be used with EVP_PKEY_fromdata(). I<selection> is described in L</Selections>. See L<OSSL_PARAM(3)> for the use of B<OSSL_PARAM> as parameter descriptor. +Parameters in the I<params> array that are not among the settable parameters +for the given I<selection> are ignored. + =head2 Selections The following constants can be used for I<selection>: diff --git a/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod b/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod index c58f35547a..d9b1666b2e 100644 --- a/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod +++ b/doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ per-operation basis. =item "pub" (B<OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PUB_KEY>) <octet string> -The public key value in EC point format. +The public key value in encoded EC point format. This parameter is used +when importing or exporting the public key value with the EVP_PKEY_fromdata() +and EVP_PKEY_todata() functions. =item "priv" (B<OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PRIV_KEY>) <unsigned integer> |