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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/RSA_generate_key.pod')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/RSA_generate_key.pod b/doc/man3/RSA_generate_key.pod index a4c078a4b0ba..491ba41e502d 100644 --- a/doc/man3/RSA_generate_key.pod +++ b/doc/man3/RSA_generate_key.pod @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ RSA_generate_multi_prime_key - generate RSA key pair Deprecated: #if OPENSSL_API_COMPAT < 0x00908000L - RSA *RSA_generate_key(int num, unsigned long e, + RSA *RSA_generate_key(int bits, unsigned long e, void (*callback)(int, int, void *), void *cb_arg); #endif @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ be seeded prior to calling RSA_generate_key_ex(). RSA_generate_multi_prime_key() generates a multi-prime RSA key pair and stores it in the B<RSA> structure provided in B<rsa>. The number of primes is given by -the B<primes> parameter. The pseudo-random number generator must be seeded prior -to calling RSA_generate_multi_prime_key(). +the B<primes> parameter. The random number generator must be seeded when +calling RSA_generate_multi_prime_key(). +If the automatic seeding or reseeding of the OpenSSL CSPRNG fails due to +external circumstances (see L<RAND(7)>), the operation will fail. The modulus size will be of length B<bits>, the number of primes to form the modulus will be B<primes>, and the public exponent will be B<e>. Key sizes @@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ progress of the key generation. If B<cb> is not B<NULL>, it will be called as follows using the BN_GENCB_call() function described on the L<BN_generate_prime(3)> page. -RSA_generate_prime() is similar to RSA_generate_prime_ex() but +RSA_generate_key() is similar to RSA_generate_key_ex() but expects an old-style callback function; see L<BN_generate_prime(3)> for information on the old-style callback. @@ -88,7 +90,8 @@ B<BN_GENCB_call(cb, 2, x)> is used with two different meanings. =head1 SEE ALSO -L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<RAND_bytes(3)>, L<BN_generate_prime(3)> +L<ERR_get_error(3)>, L<RAND_bytes(3)>, L<BN_generate_prime(3)>, +L<RAND(7)> =head1 HISTORY @@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ RSA_generate_key_ex() instead. =head1 COPYRIGHT -Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright 2000-2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy |