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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
commit | fc22b3d6507c6745911b9dfcc68f1e665ae13dbc (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 4.22.0.upstream/4.22.0
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BN_new.3ssl b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BN_new.3ssl new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ca249ea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BN_new.3ssl @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43) +.\" +.\" 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 "BN_NEW 3SSL" +.TH BN_NEW 3SSL 2024-02-03 3.1.5 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 +BN_new, BN_secure_new, BN_clear, BN_free, BN_clear_free \- allocate and free BIGNUMs +.SH SYNOPSIS +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +.Vb 1 +\& #include <openssl/bn.h> +\& +\& BIGNUM *BN_new(void); +\& +\& BIGNUM *BN_secure_new(void); +\& +\& void BN_clear(BIGNUM *a); +\& +\& void BN_free(BIGNUM *a); +\& +\& void BN_clear_free(BIGNUM *a); +.Ve +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +\&\fBBN_new()\fR allocates and initializes a \fBBIGNUM\fR structure. +\&\fBBN_secure_new()\fR does the same except that the secure heap +\&\fBOPENSSL_secure_malloc\fR\|(3) is used to store the value. +.PP +\&\fBBN_clear()\fR is used to destroy sensitive data such as keys when they +are no longer needed. It erases the memory used by \fBa\fR and sets it +to the value 0. +If \fBa\fR is NULL, nothing is done. +.PP +\&\fBBN_free()\fR frees the components of the \fBBIGNUM\fR, and if it was created +by \fBBN_new()\fR, also the structure itself. \fBBN_clear_free()\fR additionally +overwrites the data before the memory is returned to the system. +If \fBa\fR is NULL, nothing is done. +.SH "RETURN VALUES" +.IX Header "RETURN VALUES" +\&\fBBN_new()\fR and \fBBN_secure_new()\fR +return a pointer to the \fBBIGNUM\fR initialised to the value 0. +If the allocation fails, +they return \fBNULL\fR and set an error code that can be obtained +by \fBERR_get_error\fR\|(3). +.PP +\&\fBBN_clear()\fR, \fBBN_free()\fR and \fBBN_clear_free()\fR have no return values. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +\&\fBERR_get_error\fR\|(3), \fBOPENSSL_secure_malloc\fR\|(3) +.SH HISTORY +.IX Header "HISTORY" +\&\fBBN_init()\fR was removed in OpenSSL 1.1.0; use \fBBN_new()\fR instead. +.SH COPYRIGHT +.IX Header "COPYRIGHT" +Copyright 2000\-2017 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>. |