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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-09-02 18:48:52 +0200 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-09-02 18:48:52 +0200 |
| commit | dea8f13d8104872dec9243abe06f3d9e4c807ccd (patch) | |
| tree | b01e5b901eaca45f1e3aa2b6fddfd45ca271ee75 /openssl/doc/crypto/RSA_sign.pod | |
| parent | 3293021e6f582c7348667e7638941620134525e1 (diff) | |
| parent | 04168ae281bfbd714ddf6b90d98eac892508dde8 (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/released'
Conflicts:
openssl/Makefile
openssl/crypto/opensslconf.h
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diff --git a/openssl/doc/crypto/RSA_sign.pod b/openssl/doc/crypto/RSA_sign.pod index 8553be8e9..fc16b1f4f 100644 --- a/openssl/doc/crypto/RSA_sign.pod +++ b/openssl/doc/crypto/RSA_sign.pod @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ RSA_sign() signs the message digest B<m> of size B<m_len> using the private key B<rsa> as specified in PKCS #1 v2.0. It stores the signature in B<sigret> and the signature size in B<siglen>. B<sigret> must point to RSA_size(B<rsa>) bytes of memory. +Note that PKCS #1 adds meta-data, placing limits on the size of the +key that can be used. +See L<RSA_private_encrypt(3)|RSA_private_encrypt(3)> for lower-level +operations. B<type> denotes the message digest algorithm that was used to generate B<m>. It usually is one of B<NID_sha1>, B<NID_ripemd160> and B<NID_md5>; |