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authorLibravatarLibravatar daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> 2017-10-26 17:21:07 +1100
committerLibravatarLibravatar daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> 2017-10-26 17:21:07 +1100
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OpenSSL now supports more digest<=>key combinations. Remove incorrect examples
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@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ Set the private key component to that described by the PEM encoded private key i
\subsubsection[\fn{pkey:sign}]{\fn{pkey:sign($digest$)}}
-Sign data which has been consumed by the specified \module{openssl.digest} $digest$. Digests and keys are not all interchangeable. For example, an elliptic curve key requires a digest of type ``ecdsa-with-SHA1'', while DSA requires ``dss1''. OpenSSL supports more varied digests for RSA.
+Sign data which has been consumed by the specified \module{openssl.digest} $digest$. Digests and keys are not all interchangeable.
Returns the signature as an opaque binary string\footnote{Elliptic curve signatures are two X.509 DER-encoded numbers, for example, while RSA signatures are encrypted DER structures.} on success, and throws an error otherwise.
@@ -1349,9 +1349,8 @@ local digest = require"openssl.digest"
-- generate a public/private key pair
local key = pkey.new{ type = "EC", curve = "prime192v1" }
--- digest our message using an appropriate digest ("ecdsa-with-SHA1" for EC;
--- "dss1" for DSA; and "sha1", "sha256", etc for RSA).
-local data = digest.new"ecdsa-with-SHA1"
+-- digest our message using an appropriate digest
+local data = digest.new "sha1"
data:update(... or "hello world")
-- generate a signature for our data