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-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.28 (Pod::Simple 3.30)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.28 (Pod::Simple 3.28)
.\"
.\" Standard preamble:
.\" ========================================================================
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3"
-.TH EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3 "2015-07-09" "1.0.1p" "OpenSSL"
+.TH EVP_DigestVerifyInit 3 "2015-12-03" "1.0.1q" "OpenSSL"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -173,10 +173,11 @@ using a macro.
or a negative value for failure. In particular a return value of \-2 indicates
the operation is not supported by the public key algorithm.
.PP
-Unlike other functions the return value 0 from \fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR 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.
+\&\fIEVP_DigestVerifyFinal()\fR 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).
.PP
The error codes can be obtained from \fIERR_get_error\fR\|(3).
.SH "NOTES"
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