openssl/doc/crypto/DSA_size.pod
Geoff Thorpe 31e441a805 These are updates/fixes to DH/DSA/RAND docs based on the fixes to the RSA
docs. There were a couple of other places where the docs were not
synchronised with the API that are now fixed. One or two still remain to be
fixed though ...
2002-08-05 16:28:59 +00:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
DSA_size - get DSA signature size
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/dsa.h>
int DSA_size(const DSA *dsa);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This function returns the size of an ASN.1 encoded DSA signature in
bytes. It can be used to determine how much memory must be allocated
for a DSA signature.
B<dsa-E<gt>q> must not be B<NULL>.
=head1 RETURN VALUE
The size in bytes.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<dsa(3)|dsa(3)>, L<DSA_sign(3)|DSA_sign(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
DSA_size() is available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.
=cut