openssl/doc/man7/EVP_MD-common.pod
Richard Levitte 1e55cbc874 DOCS: Move implementation specific docs away from provider-digest(7)
The provider- manuals are meant to describe the general interface for
their respective operation.  This is not the place to describe
implementation specific details.

This change creates a number of doc/man7/EVP_MD manuals, one for each
algorithm or set of algorithms, as well as doc/man7/EVP_MD-common.pod
to describe what's common to them all.

While we're at it, correct the SHA3 settable context params array to
match what's actually settable.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11270)
2020-03-10 13:32:06 +01:00

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=head1 NAME
EVP_MD-common - The OpenSSL EVP_MD implementations, common things
=head1 DESCRIPTION
All the OpenSSL EVP_MD implementations understand the following
L<OSSL_PARAM(3)> entries:
=over 4
Gettable with L<EVP_MD_get_params(3)>:
=over 4
=item "blocksize" (B<OSSL_DIGEST_PARAM_BLOCK_SIZE>) <unsigned integer>
The digest block size.
The length of the "blocksize" parameter should not exceed that of a
B<size_t>.
This value can also be retrieved with L<EVP_MD_block_size(3)>.
=item "size" (B<OSSL_DIGEST_PARAM_SIZE>) <unsigned integer>
The digest output size.
The length of the "size" parameter should not exceed that of a B<size_t>.
This value can also be retrieved with L<EVP_MD_size(3)>.
=item "flags" (B<OSSL_DIGEST_PARAM_FLAGS>) <unsigned integer>
Diverse flags that describe exceptional behaviour for the digest.
These flags are described in L<EVP_MD_meth_set_flags(3)/DESCRIPTION>.
The length of the "flags" parameter should equal that of an
B<unsigned long int>.
=begin comment
The description of these flags should probably be moved. Also,
EVP_MD_FLAG_FIPS isn't relevant any more.
=end comment
This value can also be retrieved with L<EVP_MD_flags(3)>.
=back
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<EVP_MD_get_params(3)>, L<provider-digest(7)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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