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diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RSA_sign.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RSA_sign.3
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--- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RSA_sign.3
+++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RSA_sign.3
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "RSA_sign 3"
-.TH RSA_sign 3 "2014-06-05" "1.0.1h" "OpenSSL"
+.TH RSA_sign 3 "2014-08-06" "1.0.1i" "OpenSSL"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ RSA_sign, RSA_verify \- RSA signatures
private key \fBrsa\fR as specified in \s-1PKCS\s0 #1 v2.0. It stores the
signature in \fBsigret\fR and the signature size in \fBsiglen\fR. \fBsigret\fR
must point to RSA_size(\fBrsa\fR) bytes of memory.
+Note that \s-1PKCS\s0 #1 adds meta-data, placing limits on the size of the
+key that can be used.
+See \fIRSA_private_encrypt\fR\|(3) for lower-level
+operations.
.PP
\&\fBtype\fR denotes the message digest algorithm that was used to generate
\&\fBm\fR. It usually is one of \fBNID_sha1\fR, \fBNID_ripemd160\fR and \fBNID_md5\fR;
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