1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3 b/src/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3
index 6064bc7940..9a6c743876 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_SignInit.3
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: EVP_SignInit.3,v 1.19 2024/07/21 09:24:07 tb Exp $
-.\" full merge up to: OpenSSL b97fdb57 Nov 11 09:33:09 2016 +0100
-.\" selective merge up to: OpenSSL 79b49fb0 Mar 20 10:03:10 2018 +1000
+.\" $OpenBSD: EVP_SignInit.3,v 1.20 2024/11/08 22:23:35 schwarze Exp $
+.\" full merge up to: OpenSSL 6328d367 Jul 4 21:58:30 2020 +0200
 .\"
 .\" This file was written by Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>.
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000-2002, 2005, 2006, 2014-2016 The OpenSSL Project.
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
 .\" OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 21 2024 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 8 2024 $
 .Dt EVP_SIGNINIT 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -86,20 +85,23 @@
 .Fa "const EVP_MD *type"
 .Fc
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-The EVP signature routines are a high level interface to digital
+The EVP signature routines are a high-level interface to digital
 signatures.
 .Pp
 .Fn EVP_SignInit_ex
-sets up a signing context
+sets up the signing context
 .Fa ctx
 to use the digest
 .Fa type .
+Before calling this function, obtain
 .Fa ctx
-must be initialized with
-.Xr EVP_MD_CTX_init 3
-before calling this function.
+from
+.Xr EVP_MD_CTX_new 3
+or call
+.Xr EVP_MD_CTX_reset 3
+on it.
 The
-.Fa ENGINE *engine
+.Fa engine
 argument is always ignored and passing
 .Dv NULL
 is recommended.
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ to use the default implementation of digest
 .Fa type .
 .Pp
 The EVP interface to digital signatures should almost always be
-used in preference to the low level interfaces.
+used in preference to the low-level interfaces.
 This is because the code then becomes transparent to the algorithm used
 and much more flexible.
 .Pp