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Update documentation of BN_generate_prime_ex 

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9309)
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Bernd Edlinger 2019-07-10 21:33:48 +02:00
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@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ BN_generate_prime_ex2() generates a pseudo-random prime number of
at least bit length B<bits> using the BN_CTX provided in B<ctx>. The value of
B<ctx> must not be NULL.
The returned number is probably prime with a negligible error.
If B<add> is B<NULL> the returned prime number will have exact bit
length B<bits> with the top most two bits set.
If B<ret> is not B<NULL>, it will be used to store the number.
@ -94,7 +96,9 @@ If B<add> is not B<NULL>, the prime will fulfill the condition p % B<add>
generator.
If B<safe> is true, it will be a safe prime (i.e. a prime p so
that (p-1)/2 is also prime).
that (p-1)/2 is also prime). If B<safe> is true, and B<rem> == B<NULL>
the condition will be p % B<add> == 3.
It is recommended that B<add> is a multiple of 4.
The random generator must be seeded prior to calling BN_generate_prime_ex().
If the automatic seeding or reseeding of the OpenSSL CSPRNG fails due to
@ -218,7 +222,7 @@ and BN_GENCB_get_arg() functions were added in OpenSSL 1.1.0.
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