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| author | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-01-05 11:18:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2022-02-07 16:28:27 +0100 |
| commit | f6f4d1cc00a557232955867b6c04f767e8b5a12e (patch) | |
| tree | 6d9cf700ce4d99c564a7070d591e546d06350970 /doc | |
| parent | 25a0a44dc6223e515f5e91e41798cccf09c5612b (diff) | |
doc: Add hint to use EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param to retrieve big integers
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17423)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod index 383ca6eb58..c6a3b43cd3 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_gettable_params.pod @@ -47,10 +47,12 @@ value that is negative or does not fit into a native C B<size_t> type using EVP_PKEY_get_size_t_param() will also fail. EVP_PKEY_get_int_param() retrieves a key I<pkey> integer value I<*out> -associated with a name of I<key_name>. +associated with a name of I<key_name> if it fits into C<int> type. For +parameters that do not fit into C<int> use EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param(). EVP_PKEY_get_size_t_param() retrieves a key I<pkey> size_t value I<*out> -associated with a name of I<key_name>. +associated with a name of I<key_name> if it fits into C<size_t> type. For +parameters that do not fit into C<size_t> use EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param(). EVP_PKEY_get_bn_param() retrieves a key I<pkey> BIGNUM value I<**bn> associated with a name of I<key_name>. If I<*bn> is NULL then the BIGNUM |