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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
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.\" ========================================================================
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.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "EVP_VERIFYINIT 3ossl"
-.TH EVP_VERIFYINIT 3ossl "2023-09-19" "3.0.11" "OpenSSL"
+.TH EVP_VERIFYINIT 3ossl 2025-07-01 3.5.1 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"
+.SH NAME
EVP_VerifyInit_ex,
EVP_VerifyInit, EVP_VerifyUpdate, EVP_VerifyFinal_ex, EVP_VerifyFinal
\&\- EVP signature verification functions
-.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\& #include <openssl/evp.h>
@@ -155,13 +79,13 @@ EVP_VerifyInit, EVP_VerifyUpdate, EVP_VerifyFinal_ex, EVP_VerifyFinal
\&
\& int EVP_VerifyInit(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx, const EVP_MD *type);
.Ve
-.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
-The \s-1EVP\s0 signature verification routines are a high-level interface to digital
+The EVP signature verification routines are a high-level interface to digital
signatures.
.PP
\&\fBEVP_VerifyInit_ex()\fR sets up verification context \fIctx\fR to use digest
-\&\fItype\fR from \s-1ENGINE\s0 \fIimpl\fR. \fIctx\fR must be created by calling
+\&\fItype\fR from ENGINE \fIimpl\fR. \fIctx\fR must be created by calling
\&\fBEVP_MD_CTX_new()\fR before calling this function.
.PP
\&\fBEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR hashes \fIcnt\fR bytes of data at \fId\fR into the
@@ -174,7 +98,7 @@ The library context \fIlibctx\fR and property query \fIpropq\fR are used when cr
a context to use with the key \fIpkey\fR.
.PP
\&\fBEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR is similar to \fBEVP_VerifyFinal_ex()\fR but uses default
-values of \s-1NULL\s0 for the library context \fIlibctx\fR and the property query \fIpropq\fR.
+values of NULL for the library context \fIlibctx\fR and the property query \fIpropq\fR.
.PP
\&\fBEVP_VerifyInit()\fR initializes verification context \fIctx\fR to use the default
implementation of digest \fItype\fR.
@@ -187,20 +111,27 @@ failure.
signature, 0 for failure and a negative value if some other error occurred.
.PP
The error codes can be obtained by \fBERR_get_error\fR\|(3).
-.SH "NOTES"
+.SH NOTES
.IX Header "NOTES"
-The \fB\s-1EVP\s0\fR interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in
+The \fBEVP\fR interface to digital signatures should almost always be used in
preference to the low-level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
transparent to the algorithm used and much more flexible.
.PP
The call to \fBEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR internally finalizes a copy of the digest context.
This means that calls to \fBEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR and \fBEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR can be called
-later to digest and verify additional data.
+later to digest and verify additional data. Applications may disable this
+behavior by setting the EVP_MD_CTX_FLAG_FINALISE context flag via
+\&\fBEVP_MD_CTX_set_flags\fR\|(3).
.PP
Since only a copy of the digest context is ever finalized the context must
be cleaned up after use by calling \fBEVP_MD_CTX_free()\fR or a memory leak
will occur.
-.SH "BUGS"
+.PP
+Note that not all providers support continuation, in case the selected
+provider does not allow to duplicate contexts \fBEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR will
+finalize the digest context and attempting to process additional data via
+\&\fBEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR will result in an error.
+.SH BUGS
.IX Header "BUGS"
Older versions of this documentation wrongly stated that calls to
\&\fBEVP_VerifyUpdate()\fR could not be made after calling \fBEVP_VerifyFinal()\fR.
@@ -218,17 +149,17 @@ The previous two bugs are fixed in the newer EVP_DigestVerify*() function.
\&\fBevp\fR\|(7),
\&\fBEVP_SignInit\fR\|(3),
\&\fBEVP_DigestInit\fR\|(3),
-\&\fBevp\fR\|(7), \s-1\fBHMAC\s0\fR\|(3), \s-1\fBMD2\s0\fR\|(3),
-\&\s-1\fBMD5\s0\fR\|(3), \s-1\fBMDC2\s0\fR\|(3), \s-1\fBRIPEMD160\s0\fR\|(3),
-\&\s-1\fBSHA1\s0\fR\|(3), \fBopenssl\-dgst\fR\|(1)
-.SH "HISTORY"
+\&\fBevp\fR\|(7), \fBHMAC\fR\|(3), \fBMD2\fR\|(3),
+\&\fBMD5\fR\|(3), \fBMDC2\fR\|(3), \fBRIPEMD160\fR\|(3),
+\&\fBSHA1\fR\|(3), \fBopenssl\-dgst\fR\|(1)
+.SH HISTORY
.IX Header "HISTORY"
The function \fBEVP_VerifyFinal_ex()\fR was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
-.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
-Copyright 2000\-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2000\-2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
.PP
-Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use
+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 \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at
+in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.