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| author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-09-02 18:24:12 +0200 |
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| committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-09-02 18:26:00 +0200 |
| commit | 04168ae281bfbd714ddf6b90d98eac892508dde8 (patch) | |
| tree | c2d7e42dede9c0b9930ce537eb7d804e45459e53 /openssl/doc/crypto/RSA_sign.pod | |
| parent | e21655632e3fd40b7f6a5cc3c7f3c379d54557c4 (diff) | |
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Upgrade openssl to version openssl-1.0.1i
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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>; |