Commit b9b5e714 authored Mar 20, 2018 by Pauli

Remove mentioned link between message digests and public key algorithms.



Refer #5682 This is the same but for 1.1.0

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5683)

parent 418c784b

doc/crypto/EVP_SignInit.pod

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		@@ -59,11 +59,6 @@ The B<EVP> interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in
		preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
		transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible.

		Due to the link between message digests and public key algorithms the correct
		digest algorithm must be used with the correct public key type. A list of
		algorithms and associated public key algorithms appears in
		L<EVP_DigestInit(3)>.

		When signing with DSA private keys the random number generator must be seeded
		or the operation will fail. The random number generator does not need to be
		seeded for RSA signatures.

doc/crypto/EVP_VerifyInit.pod

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		@@ -51,11 +51,6 @@ The B<EVP> interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in
		preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
		transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible.

		Due to the link between message digests and public key algorithms the correct
		digest algorithm must be used with the correct public key type. A list of
		algorithms and associated public key algorithms appears in
		L<EVP_DigestInit(3)>.

		The call to EVP_VerifyFinal() internally finalizes a copy of the digest context.
		This means that calls to EVP_VerifyUpdate() and EVP_VerifyFinal() can be called
		later to digest and verify additional data.