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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.pod b/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.pod index cfeccd9..54cad92 100644 --- a/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.pod +++ b/crypto/openssl/doc/crypto/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.pod @@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ EVP_DigestVerifyInit() and EVP_DigestVerifyUpdate() return 1 for success and 0 or a negative value for failure. In particular a return value of -2 indicates the operation is not supported by the public key algorithm. -Unlike other functions the return value 0 from EVP_DigestVerifyFinal() only -indicates that the signature did not verify successfully (that is tbs did -not match the original data or the signature was of invalid form) it is not an -indication of a more serious error. +EVP_DigestVerifyFinal() returns 1 for success; any other value indicates +failure. A return value of zero indicates that the signature did not verify +successfully (that is, tbs did not match the original data or the signature had +an invalid form), while other values indicate a more serious error (and +sometimes also indicate an invalid signature form). The error codes can be obtained from L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>. |
