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commit 5c5eb286afc046094cf48ecc49b10d04a1a3146c
Author: Patrick Steuer <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Dec 5 00:36:43 2017 +0100
doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod: add EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steuer <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <[email protected]>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4843)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
index d82468c..29ebf74 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ EVP_enc_null
int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_padding(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *x, int padding);
int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_key_length(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *x, int keylen);
int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, int type, int arg, void *ptr);
+ int EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *key);
const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_get_cipherbyname(const char *name);
const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_get_cipherbynid(int nid);
@@ -274,6 +275,11 @@ is not supported.
EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl() allows various cipher specific parameters to be
determined
and set.
+EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key() generates a random key of the appropriate length
+based on the cipher context. The EVP_CIPHER can provide its own random key
+generation routine to support keys of a specific form. B<Key> must point to a
+buffer at least as big as the value returned by EVP_CIPHER_CTX_key_length().
+
=head1 RETURN VALUES
EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() returns a pointer to a newly created
@@ -314,6 +320,8 @@ EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cipher() returns an B<EVP_CIPHER> structure.
EVP_CIPHER_param_to_asn1() and EVP_CIPHER_asn1_to_param() return greater
than zero for success and zero or a negative number.
+EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key() returns 1 for success.
+
=head1 CIPHER LISTING
All algorithms have a fixed key length unless otherwise stated.
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