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diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/CRYPTO_memcmp.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/CRYPTO_memcmp.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..445313242edd --- /dev/null +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/CRYPTO_memcmp.3 @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.0102 (Pod::Simple 3.45) +.\" +.\" Standard preamble: +.\" ======================================================================== +.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) +.if t .sp .5v +.if n .sp +.. +.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text +.ft CW +.nf +.ne \\$1 +.. +.de Ve \" End verbatim text +.ft R +.fi +.. +.\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. +.ie n \{\ +. ds C` "" +. ds C' "" +'br\} +.el\{\ +. ds C` +. ds C' +'br\} +.\" +.\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" +.\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for +.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index +.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the +.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. +.\" +.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. +.de IX +.. +.nr rF 0 +.if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 +.if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ +. if \nF \{\ +. de IX +. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" +.. +. if !\nF==2 \{\ +. nr % 0 +. nr F 2 +. \} +. \} +.\} +.rr rF +.\" ======================================================================== +.\" +.IX Title "CRYPTO_MEMCMP 3ossl" +.TH CRYPTO_MEMCMP 3ossl 2025-09-30 3.5.4 OpenSSL +.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +CRYPTO_memcmp \- Constant time memory comparison +.SH SYNOPSIS +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +.Vb 1 +\& #include <openssl/crypto.h> +\& +\& int CRYPTO_memcmp(const void *a, const void *b, size_t len); +.Ve +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +The CRYPTO_memcmp function compares the \fBlen\fR bytes pointed to by \fBa\fR and \fBb\fR +for equality. +It takes an amount of time dependent on \fBlen\fR, but independent of the +contents of the memory regions pointed to by \fBa\fR and \fBb\fR. +.SH "RETURN VALUES" +.IX Header "RETURN VALUES" +\&\fBCRYPTO_memcmp()\fR returns 0 if the memory regions are equal and nonzero +otherwise. +.SH NOTES +.IX Header "NOTES" +Unlike \fBmemcmp\fR\|(2), this function cannot be used to order the two memory regions +as the return value when they differ is undefined, other than being nonzero. +.SH COPYRIGHT +.IX Header "COPYRIGHT" +Copyright 2019 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +.PP +Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use +this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy +in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at +<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. |