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authorJoel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org>2018-06-14 18:04:00 +0000
committerJoel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org>2018-06-14 18:04:00 +0000
commit293be1bd9a559f430e6b6d124139a129db1cd6dd (patch)
tree5d1234fe3f294ad01bfe78cbeb52da1fb11b1e45 /lib
parent4d133d65a07ca2bd6152f6a7eb81d9814201c249 (diff)
Clarify the digest truncation comment in DSA signature generation.
Requested by and ok tb@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libcrypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c b/lib/libcrypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c
index 9545cff5f8e..2f7268839e9 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: dsa_ossl.c,v 1.35 2018/06/14 17:15:41 jsing Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: dsa_ossl.c,v 1.36 2018/06/14 18:03:59 jsing Exp $ */
/* Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
* All rights reserved.
*
@@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ dsa_do_sign(const unsigned char *dgst, int dlen, DSA *dsa)
goto err;
/*
- * If the digest length is greater than the size of q use the
- * BN_num_bits(dsa->q) leftmost bits of the digest, see FIPS 186-3, 4.2.
+ * If the digest length is greater than N (the bit length of q), the
+ * leftmost N bits of the digest shall be used, see FIPS 186-3, 4.2.
+ * In this case the digest length is given in bytes.
*/
if (dlen > BN_num_bytes(dsa->q))
dlen = BN_num_bytes(dsa->q);