From: tb <tb@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:37:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document behavior change of EC_POINTs_mul() again.
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Document behavior change of EC_POINTs_mul() again.
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diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/EC_POINT_add.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/EC_POINT_add.3
index a9ad5563cc9..7c3ecbb1ad3 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/EC_POINT_add.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/EC_POINT_add.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: EC_POINT_add.3,v 1.10 2018/07/15 05:38:48 jsg Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: EC_POINT_add.3,v 1.11 2018/07/16 17:37:25 tb Exp $
 .\"	OpenSSL b97fdb57 Nov 11 09:33:09 2016 +0100
 .\"
 .\" This file was written by Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
 .\" OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 15 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2018 $
 .Dt EC_POINT_ADD 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -217,12 +217,30 @@ The value
 .Fa n
 may be
 .Dv NULL ,
-in which case the result is just q * m.
+in which case the result is just
 .Pp
+.Dl q * m.
+.Pp
+.Fn EC_POINTs_mul
+only supports the values 0 and 1 for
+.Fa num .
+If it is 1, then
 .Fn EC_POINTs_mul
 calculates the value
 .Pp
-.Dl generator * n + q[0] * m[0] + ... + q[num-1] * m[num-1]
+.Dl generator * n + q[0] * m[0].
+.Pp
+If
+.Fa num
+is 0 then
+.Fa q
+and
+.Fa m
+must be
+.Dv NULL ,
+and the result is just
+.Pp
+.Dl generator * n .
 .Pp
 As for
 .Fn EC_POINT_mul ,