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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_new.3')
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diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_new.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_new.3 index feda33f3e26a..862e502e7a92 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_new.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_new.3 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "EVP_PKEY_NEW 3ossl" -.TH EVP_PKEY_NEW 3ossl 2025-07-01 3.5.1 OpenSSL +.TH EVP_PKEY_NEW 3ossl 2025-09-16 3.5.3 OpenSSL .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -276,7 +276,19 @@ general private key without reference to any particular algorithm. The structure returned by \fBEVP_PKEY_new()\fR is empty. To add a private or public key to this empty structure use the appropriate functions described in \&\fBEVP_PKEY_set1_RSA\fR\|(3), \fBEVP_PKEY_set1_DSA\fR\|(3), \fBEVP_PKEY_set1_DH\fR\|(3) or -\&\fBEVP_PKEY_set1_EC_KEY\fR\|(3). +\&\fBEVP_PKEY_set1_EC_KEY\fR\|(3) for legacy key types implemented in internal +OpenSSL providers. +.PP +For fully provider-managed key types (see \fBprovider\-keymgmt\fR\|(7)), +possibly implemented in external providers, use functions such as +\&\fBEVP_PKEY_set1_encoded_public_key\fR\|(3) or \fBEVP_PKEY_fromdata\fR\|(3) +to populate key data. +.PP +Generally caution is advised for using an \fBEVP_PKEY\fR structure across +different library contexts: In order for an \fBEVP_PKEY\fR to be shared by +multiple library contexts the providers associated with the library contexts +must have key managers that support the key type and implement the +\&\fBOSSL_FUNC_keymgmt_import()\fR and \fBOSSL_FUNC_keymgmt_export()\fR functions. .SH "RETURN VALUES" .IX Header "RETURN VALUES" \&\fBEVP_PKEY_new()\fR, \fBEVP_PKEY_new_raw_private_key()\fR, \fBEVP_PKEY_new_raw_public_key()\fR, |