openssl/doc/crypto/DSA_size.pod
Geoff Thorpe 5bf738737d These are updates/fixes to DH/DSA/RAND docs based on the fixes to the RSA
docs. There were a couple of other places (including RSA) where the docs
were not quite synchronised with the API that are now fixed. One or two
still remain to be fixed though ...
2002-08-05 16:27:01 +00:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
DSA_size - get DSA signature size
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/dsa.h>
int DSA_size(const DSA *dsa);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This function returns the size of an ASN.1 encoded DSA signature in
bytes. It can be used to determine how much memory must be allocated
for a DSA signature.
B<dsa-E<gt>q> must not be B<NULL>.
=head1 RETURN VALUE
The size in bytes.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<dsa(3)|dsa(3)>, L<DSA_sign(3)|DSA_sign(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
DSA_size() is available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.
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