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

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod
index 45f337bc31f7df5e59ad49a4ccef86ff207d0e0c..0c339fea38160eab9ca53b92aec8c2d18c1e40e1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.pod
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ EVP_DigestSign - EVP signing functions
 The EVP signature routines are a high level interface to digital signatures.
 
 EVP_DigestSignInit() sets up signing context B<ctx> to use digest B<type> from
-ENGINE B<impl> and private key B<pkey>. B<ctx> must be created with
+ENGINE B<e> and private key B<pkey>. B<ctx> must be created with
 EVP_MD_CTX_new() before calling this function. If B<pctx> is not NULL the
 EVP_PKEY_CTX of the signing operation will be written to B<*pctx>: this can
 be used to set alternative signing options.
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ call is successful the signature is written to B<sig> and the amount of data
 written to B<siglen>.
 
 EVP_DigestSign() signs B<tbslen> bytes of data at B<tbs> and places the
-signature in B<sig> and its length in B<siglen> in a simiilar way to
+signature in B<sig> and its length in B<siglen> in a similar way to
 EVP_DigestSignFinal().
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
@@ -59,9 +59,10 @@ 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.
 
-EVP_DigestSign() is a single part operation which signs a single block of data
-in one function. It is equivalent to calling EVP_DigestSignUpdate() and
-EVP_DigestSignFinal().
+EVP_DigestSign() is a one shot operation which signs a single block of data
+in one function. For algorithms that support streaming it is equivalent to
+calling EVP_DigestSignUpdate() and EVP_DigestSignFinal(). For algorithms which
+do not support streaming (e.g. PureEdDSA) it is the only way to sign data.
 
 In previous versions of OpenSSL there was a link between message digest types
 and public key algorithms. This meant that "clone" digests such as EVP_dss1()
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ 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
-be cleaned up after use by calling EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup() or a memory leak
+be cleaned up after use by calling EVP_MD_CTX_free() or a memory leak
 will occur.
 
 The use of EVP_PKEY_size() with these functions is discouraged because some
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ were first added to OpenSSL 1.0.0.
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2006-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2006-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
 
 Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use
 this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy