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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2016-08-08 14:14:40 +0100
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2016-08-12 14:21:21 +0100
commit721f3980236c397b0011088477f4568ac5f24cae (patch)
tree20b4cf1f386d4f4ce655842307810ea1722730c1 /doc
parentd40a13af5d8d40944614fa3277e7e6a8841a12bc (diff)
downloadopenssl-721f3980236c397b0011088477f4568ac5f24cae.tar.gz
Update documentation for DSA_SIG and ECDSA_SIG.
RT#4590 Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/DSA_SIG_new.pod2
-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/DSA_SIG_new.pod b/doc/crypto/DSA_SIG_new.pod
index 7f6a5a121a..7503460a19 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/DSA_SIG_new.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/DSA_SIG_new.pod
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DSA_SIG_new, DSA_SIG_free - allocate and free DSA signature objects
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-DSA_SIG_new() allocates and initializes a B<DSA_SIG> structure.
+DSA_SIG_new() allocates an empty B<DSA_SIG> structure.
DSA_SIG_free() frees the B<DSA_SIG> structure and its components. The
values are erased before the memory is returned to the system.
diff --git a/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod b/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
index b6545c92e6..f6aaed192b 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ L<EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> or L<EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> instead.
B<ECDSA_SIG> is an opaque structure consisting of two BIGNUMs for the
B<r> and B<s> value of an ECDSA signature (see X9.62 or FIPS 186-2).
-ECDSA_SIG_new() allocates a new B<ECDSA_SIG> structure (note: this
-function also allocates the BIGNUMs) and initializes it.
+ECDSA_SIG_new() allocates an empty B<ECDSA_SIG> structure. Note: before
+OpenSSL 1.1.0 the: the B<r> and B<s> components were initialised.
ECDSA_SIG_free() frees the B<ECDSA_SIG> structure B<sig>.