Add X509_NAME_hash_ex() to be able to check if it failed due to unsupported SHA1

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

diff --git a/doc/man3/DSA_generate_key.pod b/doc/man3/DSA_generate_key.pod
index 4781abed7a9b466b8583c242f35256f1399e50b1..079c2fef188e75b852682e8d775dbbcbf71d2f82 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/DSA_generate_key.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/DSA_generate_key.pod
@@ -15,23 +15,25 @@ DSA_generate_key - generate DSA key pair
 DSA_generate_key() expects B<a> to contain DSA parameters. It generates
 a new key pair and stores it in B<a-E<gt>pub_key> and B<a-E<gt>priv_key>.
 
-The PRNG must be seeded prior to calling DSA_generate_key().
+The random generator must be seeded prior to calling DSA_generate_key().
+If the automatic seeding or reseeding of the OpenSSL CSPRNG fails due to
+external circumstances (see L<RAND(7)>), the operation will fail.
 
-=head1 RETURN VALUE
+=head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 DSA_generate_key() returns 1 on success, 0 otherwise.
 The error codes can be obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)>.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<dsa(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<rand(3)>,
-L<DSA_generate_parameters(3)>
+L<DSA_new(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<RAND_bytes(3)>,
+L<DSA_generate_parameters_ex(3)>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
 
-Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use
+Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
 this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
 in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
 L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.