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-rw-r--r--doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_fromdata.pod3
-rw-r--r--doc/man7/EVP_PKEY-EC.pod4
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>