Certificate Management Protocol (CMP, RFC 4210) extension to OpenSSL

[openssl.git] / doc / man3 / BN_new.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/BN_new.pod b/doc/man3/BN_new.pod
index e3800b82b738dccb0219b7ec964033aeb1b9eca7..e7269e0176923754c8db0b578b00faf078dff435 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/BN_new.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/BN_new.pod
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ OPENSSL_secure_malloc(3) is used to store the value.
 BN_clear() is used to destroy sensitive data such as keys when they
 are no longer needed. It erases the memory used by B<a> and sets it
 to the value 0.
+If B<a> is NULL, nothing is done.
 
 BN_free() frees the components of the B<BIGNUM>, and if it was created
 by BN_new(), also the structure itself. BN_clear_free() additionally