Commit aa4312d2 authored by parasssh's avatar parasssh Committed by Richard Levitte
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Fix typos in documentation.



CLA: trivial

(cherry picked from commit fa332bba)

Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7040)
parent f6c6c7c9
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@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ EVP_MD_CTX_copy_ex() because they can efficiently reuse a digest context
instead of initializing and cleaning it up on each call and allow non default
implementations of digests to be specified.

If digest contexts are not cleaned up after use
If digest contexts are not cleaned up after use,
memory leaks will occur.

EVP_MD_CTX_size(), EVP_MD_CTX_block_size(), EVP_MD_CTX_type(),
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ is freed). The digest B<type> may be NULL if the signing algorithm supports it.

Only EVP_PKEY types that support signing can be used with these functions. This
includes MAC algorithms where the MAC generation is considered as a form of
"signing." Built-in EVP_PKEY types supported by these functions are CMAC, DSA,
"signing". Built-in EVP_PKEY types supported by these functions are CMAC, DSA,
ECDSA, HMAC and RSA.

Not all digests can be used for all key types. The following combinations apply.
@@ -71,17 +71,17 @@ signature context B<ctx>. This function can be called several times on the
same B<ctx> to include additional data. This function is currently implemented
using a macro.

EVP_DigestSignFinal() signs the data in B<ctx> places the signature in B<sig>.
EVP_DigestSignFinal() signs the data in B<ctx> and places the signature in B<sig>.
If B<sig> is B<NULL> then the maximum size of the output buffer is written to
the B<siglen> parameter. If B<sig> is not B<NULL> then before the call the
B<siglen> parameter should contain the length of the B<sig> buffer, if the
B<siglen> parameter should contain the length of the B<sig> buffer. If the
call is successful the signature is written to B<sig> and the amount of data
written to B<siglen>.

=head1 RETURN VALUES

EVP_DigestSignInit() EVP_DigestSignUpdate() and EVP_DigestSignaFinal() return
1 for success and 0 or a negative value for failure. In particular a return
1 for success and 0 or a negative value for failure. In particular, a return
value of -2 indicates the operation is not supported by the public key
algorithm.

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ The call to EVP_DigestSignFinal() internally finalizes a copy of the digest
context. This means that calls to EVP_DigestSignUpdate() and
EVP_DigestSignFinal() can be called later to digest and sign additional data.

Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized the context must
Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized, the context must
be cleaned up after use by calling EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup() or a memory leak
will occur.

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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The call to EVP_DigestVerifyFinal() internally finalizes a copy of the digest
context. This means that EVP_VerifyUpdate() and EVP_VerifyFinal() can
be called later to digest and verify additional data.

Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized the context must
Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized, the context must
be cleaned up after use by calling EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup() or a memory leak
will occur.