• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• RETURN VALUES
• SEE ALSO
• HISTORY
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

BN_new, BN_secure_new, BN_clear, BN_free, BN_clear_free - allocate and free BIGNUMs

SYNOPSIS

 #include <openssl/bn.h>
 
 BIGNUM *BN_new(void);
 
 BIGNUM *BN_secure_new(void);
 
 void BN_clear(BIGNUM *a);
 
 void BN_free(BIGNUM *a);
 
 void BN_clear_free(BIGNUM *a);

DESCRIPTION

BN_new() allocates and initializes a BIGNUM structure. BN_secure_new() does the same except that the secure heap RETURN VALUES

BN_new() and BN_secure_new() return a pointer to the BIGNUM initialised to the value 0. If the allocation fails, they return NULL and set an error code that can be obtained by SEE ALSO

OPENSSL_secure_malloc(3)

HISTORY

BN_init() was removed in OpenSSL 1.1.0; use BN_new() instead.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html.