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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2019-07-03 17:30:03 +0100
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2019-08-06 11:19:07 +0100
commita9612d6c034f47c4788c67d85651d0cd58c3faf7 (patch)
treeb3af6481b8c7a2a50b8834c3cec70841ae739f95 /doc
parentc1a3f16f735057b45df1803d58f40e4e17b233e5 (diff)
Make the EC code available from inside the FIPS provider
Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9380)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod b/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod
index b62eaa959c..1a4d7c015f 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_copy.pod
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ EC_GROUP_get_pentanomial_basis, EC_GROUP_get0_field
int EC_GROUP_get_degree(const EC_GROUP *group);
int EC_GROUP_check(const EC_GROUP *group, BN_CTX *ctx);
- int EC_GROUP_check_named_curve(const EC_GROUP *group, int nist_only);
+ int EC_GROUP_check_named_curve(const EC_GROUP *group, int nist_only,
+ BN_CTX *ctx);
int EC_GROUP_check_discriminant(const EC_GROUP *group, BN_CTX *ctx);
@@ -152,6 +153,8 @@ then this method can be used to lookup the name of the curve that matches the gr
aliases, so that multiple NID's can map to the same domain parameters. For such curves it is unspecified which of the aliases will be
returned if the curve name of the given group is NID_undef.
If B<nist_only> is 1 it will only look for NIST approved curves, otherwise it searches all built-in curves.
+This function may be passed a BN_CTX object in the B<ctx> parameter.
+The B<ctx> parameter may be NULL.
EC_GROUP_cmp compares B<a> and B<b> to determine whether they represent the same curve or not.