doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod: add EVP_CIPHER_CTX_rand_key

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steuer <patrick.steuer@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4843)

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
index d82468c56287d2c31f5988d1fc4b78c85c0f1e01..29ebf74765298b21add4d64ad6d8c02159262bf4 100644 (file)
--- 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.