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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_md.3')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_md.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_md.3 index b5f4917..1a00f28 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_md.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BIO_f_md.3 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "BIO_f_md 3" -.TH BIO_f_md 3 "2012-05-10" "0.9.8x" "OpenSSL" +.TH BIO_f_md 3 "2012-05-10" "1.0.1c" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ data is passed through it. If an application needs to call \fIBIO_gets()\fR or \fIBIO_puts()\fR through a chain containing digest BIOs then this can be done by prepending a buffering \s-1BIO\s0. +.PP +Before OpenSSL 1.0.0 the call to \fIBIO_get_md_ctx()\fR would only work if the \s-1BIO\s0 +had been initialized for example by calling \fIBIO_set_md()\fR ). In OpenSSL +1.0.0 and later the context is always returned and the \s-1BIO\s0 is state is set +to initialized. This allows applications to initialize the context externally +if the standard calls such as \fIBIO_set_md()\fR are not sufficiently flexible. .SH "RETURN VALUES" .IX Header "RETURN VALUES" \&\fIBIO_f_md()\fR returns the digest \s-1BIO\s0 method. |