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author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2007-06-07 02:37:32 +0000 |
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committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2007-06-07 02:37:32 +0000 |
commit | 5dadf34209c288b8fffba1016e6a3c9446381153 (patch) | |
tree | 2ec36232cafd0da10fffda780f08a43c97d70aad /openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BN_num_bytes.pod | |
parent | 6fcf9830cfea5236faf42cc3437ed4bed06c16de (diff) |
Replace hacked OpenSSL code with OpenSSL 0.9.8e distribution.
svn path=/openssl/Makefile; revision=659
Diffstat (limited to 'openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BN_num_bytes.pod')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 57 deletions
diff --git a/openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BN_num_bytes.pod b/openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BN_num_bytes.pod deleted file mode 100644 index a6a2e3f8..00000000 --- a/openssl/trunk/doc/crypto/BN_num_bytes.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -=pod - -=head1 NAME - -BN_num_bits, BN_num_bytes, BN_num_bits_word - get BIGNUM size - -=head1 SYNOPSIS - - #include <openssl/bn.h> - - int BN_num_bytes(const BIGNUM *a); - - int BN_num_bits(const BIGNUM *a); - - int BN_num_bits_word(BN_ULONG w); - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -BN_num_bytes() returns the size of a B<BIGNUM> in bytes. - -BN_num_bits_word() returns the number of significant bits in a word. -If we take 0x00000432 as an example, it returns 11, not 16, not 32. -Basically, except for a zero, it returns I<floor(log2(w))+1>. - -BN_num_bits() returns the number of significant bits in a B<BIGNUM>, -following the same principle as BN_num_bits_word(). - -BN_num_bytes() is a macro. - -=head1 RETURN VALUES - -The size. - -=head1 NOTES - -Some have tried using BN_num_bits() on individual numbers in RSA keys, -DH keys and DSA keys, and found that they don't always come up with -the number of bits they expected (something like 512, 1024, 2048, -...). This is because generating a number with some specific number -of bits doesn't always set the highest bits, thereby making the number -of I<significant> bits a little lower. If you want to know the "key -size" of such a key, either use functions like RSA_size(), DH_size() -and DSA_size(), or use BN_num_bytes() and multiply with 8 (although -there's no real guarantee that will match the "key size", just a lot -more probability). - -=head1 SEE ALSO - -L<bn(3)|bn(3)>, L<DH_size(3)|DH_size(3)>, L<DSA_size(3)|DSA_size(3)>, -L<RSA_size(3)|RSA_size(3)> - -=head1 HISTORY - -BN_num_bytes(), BN_num_bits() and BN_num_bits_word() are available in -all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL. - -=cut |