openbsd/src/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_cmp.3, branch OPENBSD_7_9A mirror of https://github.com/libressl/openbsd.git
https://git.lua4.win/openbsd/atom?h=OPENBSD_7_92025-06-08T22:40:31+00:00.Lb libcrypto ; OK tb@2025-06-08T22:40:31+00:00schwarze2025-06-08T22:40:31+00:00urn:sha1:8be86af02fed1bda350c8dd14ee064cb66e3b0f5mention what BN_ULONG is2022-11-22T19:02:07+00:00schwarze2022-11-22T19:02:07+00:00urn:sha1:894280fa5b591d3caca7a19d7f13d843ce655e66Document BN_abs_is_word(3).2021-12-18T21:11:50+00:00schwarze2021-12-18T21:11:50+00:00urn:sha1:42346e10e057b7407fa5191c20a0349d35e5b216
While here, add the missing "const" qualifier to the second parameter
of BN_is_word(3) - even though i doubt that marking an integral type
parameter as "const" serves any significant purpose...
Note that the OpenSSL documentation for this function that Billy
Brumley committed on August 4, 2021 is actually wrong. Essentially,
it says "BN_abs_is_word() test[s] if a equals ... |w|." Now pray
tell me, what exactly is the point of taking the absolute value of
an unsigned integer number? To compensate for the obvious absurdity
of his patch, Billy made a point of getting *three* OKs from rather
notable people: Pauli Dale, Nicola Tuveri, and Dmitry Belyavskiy.
I believe this is a striking example of the cavalier attitude some
projects put on display when it comes to documentation, and also a
striking example of how bad documentation can occasionally be worse
than no documentation at all, because the OpenSSL manual page will
now thoroughly confuse anyone reading it.
SCNR pointing out this (hopefully unintentional) hilarity - or is
this an attempt at trolling the readers of their documentation?
If it is, they certainly got me.
In the next major bump, some BN macros will become functions.2021-12-06T19:45:27+00:00schwarze2021-12-06T19:45:27+00:00urn:sha1:036164e800dded700d72e343b440ebe3a04af264
In order to not forget it, already remove the statements
that these APIs are currently implemented as macros:
Not saying that doesn't make the documentation wrong.
Add missing const qualifiers in a number of BN_* manuals.2021-11-30T18:34:35+00:00tb2021-11-30T18:34:35+00:00urn:sha1:dde92987aa87589258a2bf0945bd631409a3006d
ok schwarze
found a complete archive of SSLeay-0.4 to SSLeay-0.8.1b tarballs2018-03-27T17:35:50+00:00schwarze2018-03-27T17:35:50+00:00urn:sha1:30d10c511917e0e339dec931667fc4b6eb014430
on the web, so fix up SSLeay HISTORY accordingly
bn.h HISTORY up to SSLeay 0.8.1b; researched from OpenSSL git2018-03-20T20:26:23+00:00schwarze2018-03-20T20:26:23+00:00urn:sha1:07f97848a667870ec14d7a5a8446ae5e5c370e9creplace all references to bn(3) with BN_new(3),2016-12-10T21:13:25+00:00schwarze2016-12-10T21:13:25+00:00urn:sha1:14bc249be8db92222ed9b5d6bba0c94e30fae42d
and make sure all BN*(3) pages point back to BN_new(3)
Copyright and license2016-11-20T16:37:02+00:00schwarze2016-11-20T16:37:02+00:00urn:sha1:621347c6c3bb1286d97773f3d5d74abfa256c4f2first pass; ok schwarze2016-11-06T15:52:50+00:00jmc2016-11-06T15:52:50+00:00urn:sha1:5a18890fb4c6b832214c6c32d7ca56db3fd9133a