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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2020-01-15 11:10:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2020-01-27 08:45:17 +0000 |
| commit | 2ee4a50ab92020dc49383d5aa644397edac4a59a (patch) | |
| tree | 76af6ea9c9f93810d91929a42ef4b6b237cfaf1f /doc | |
| parent | 612539e8a678c6099131dfd0e5e4b85fa774eb1a (diff) | |
Modify EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_pkey() to add a propquery parameter
The function EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_pkey() infers the name of the
algorithm to fetch from the EVP_PKEY that has been supplied as an
argument. But there was no way to specify properties to be used during
that fetch.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10926)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_CTX_new.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_CTX_new.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_CTX_new.pod index b08f7e4d78..5f8a01242d 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_CTX_new.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_CTX_new.pod @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ lifetime of the returned B<EVP_PKEY_CTX> or of any of its duplicates. The EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_pkey() function allocates a public key algorithm context using the library context I<libctx> (see L<OPENSSL_CTX(3)>) and the -algorithm specified by I<pkey> . None of the arguments are duplicated, so they -must remain unchanged for the lifetime of the returned B<EVP_PKEY_CTX> or of -any of its duplicates. +algorithm specified by I<pkey> and the property query I<propquery>. None of the +arguments are duplicated, so they must remain unchanged for the lifetime of the +returned B<EVP_PKEY_CTX> or any of its duplicates. EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id() and EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name() are normally used when no B<EVP_PKEY> structure is associated with the operations, |