From: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 17:28:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a CHANGES entry for EVP_PKEY_public_check() and EVP_KEY_param_check()
X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.0.0-alpha14~277
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=92a36b3705beca7bd06eed0e5c678375df79f9ca;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

Add a CHANGES entry for EVP_PKEY_public_check() and EVP_KEY_param_check()

These functions now work for more key types than they did in 1.1.1

Fixes #14477

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14485)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_check.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_check.pod
index 4f91f8f9a2c..dc036714987 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_check.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_check.pod
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ EVP_PKEY_pairwise_check
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 EVP_PKEY_param_check() validates the parameters component of the key
-given by B<ctx>.
+given by B<ctx>. This check will always succeed for key types that do not have
+parameters.
 
 EVP_PKEY_param_check_quick() validates the parameters component of the key
 given by B<ctx> like EVP_PKEY_param_check() does. However some algorithm