+/** Allocates and initialize a ECDSA_SIG structure
+ * \return pointer to a ECDSA_SIG structure or NULL if an error occurred
+ */
+ECDSA_SIG *ECDSA_SIG_new(void);
+
+/** frees a ECDSA_SIG structure
+ * \param sig pointer to the ECDSA_SIG structure
+ */
+void ECDSA_SIG_free(ECDSA_SIG *sig);
+
+/** DER encode content of ECDSA_SIG object (note: this function modifies *pp
+ * (*pp += length of the DER encoded signature)).
+ * \param sig pointer to the ECDSA_SIG object
+ * \param pp pointer to a unsigned char pointer for the output or NULL
+ * \return the length of the DER encoded ECDSA_SIG object or 0
+ */
+int i2d_ECDSA_SIG(const ECDSA_SIG *sig, unsigned char **pp);
+
+/** Decodes a DER encoded ECDSA signature (note: this function changes *pp
+ * (*pp += len)).
+ * \param sig pointer to ECDSA_SIG pointer (may be NULL)
+ * \param pp memory buffer with the DER encoded signature
+ * \param len length of the buffer
+ * \return pointer to the decoded ECDSA_SIG structure (or NULL)
+ */
+ECDSA_SIG *d2i_ECDSA_SIG(ECDSA_SIG **sig, const unsigned char **pp, long len);
+