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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2025-01-15 10:14:41 +0100
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2025-01-17 18:54:51 +0100
commit1df07c761b25e5aca8ecd90b81d05496631285fb (patch)
tree5d596416881459ec407ddf2d571e2d7701ec9315 /doc
parenttest: aAissuingDistributionPoint X.509v3 extension (diff)
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Fix documentation of OSSL_ASYM_CIPHER_PARAM_IMPLICIT_REJECTIONHEADmaster
This drops OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_IMPLICIT_REJECTION - which is a meaningless name - everywhere apart from still existing (for API stability, in case someone uses that macro). Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/26421)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_decrypt.pod2
-rw-r--r--doc/man7/provider-asym_cipher.pod6
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_decrypt.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_decrypt.pod
index 3146620095..2dfcb93a1e 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_decrypt.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_PKEY_decrypt.pod
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ used private key. They had to be processed in a side-channel free way.
Since version 3.2.0, the EVP_PKEY_decrypt() method when used with PKCS#1
v1.5 padding as implemented in the B<default> provider implements
the implicit rejection mechanism (see
-B<OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_IMPLICIT_REJECTION> in L<provider-asym_cipher(7)>).
+B<OSSL_ASYM_CIPHER_PARAM_IMPLICIT_REJECTION> in L<provider-asym_cipher(7)>).
That means it doesn't return an error when it detects an error in padding,
instead it returns a pseudo-randomly generated message, removing the need
of side-channel secure code from applications using OpenSSL.
diff --git a/doc/man7/provider-asym_cipher.pod b/doc/man7/provider-asym_cipher.pod
index 0ff33f5b70..7259fc4307 100644
--- a/doc/man7/provider-asym_cipher.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/provider-asym_cipher.pod
@@ -234,14 +234,14 @@ The TLS protocol version first requested by the client.
The negotiated TLS protocol version.
-=item "implicit-rejection" (B<OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_IMPLICIT_REJECTION>) <unsigned integer>
+=item "implicit-rejection" (B<OSSL_ASYM_CIPHER_PARAM_IMPLICIT_REJECTION>) <unsigned integer>
-Gets of sets the use of the implicit rejection mechanism for RSA PKCS#1 v1.5
+Gets or sets the use of the implicit rejection mechanism for RSA PKCS#1 v1.5
decryption. When set (non zero value), the decryption API will return
a deterministically random value if the PKCS#1 v1.5 padding check fails.
This makes exploitation of the Bleichenbacher significantly harder, even
if the code using the RSA decryption API is not implemented in side-channel
-free manner. Set by default. Requires provider support.
+free manner. Set by default in OpenSSL providers.
=back