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diff --git a/doc/luaossl.tex b/doc/luaossl.tex index 5ac7761..9e4fd8e 100644 --- a/doc/luaossl.tex +++ b/doc/luaossl.tex @@ -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 |