On 15/06/2019 15:08, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering whether it is permitted to call EVP_DigestFinal_ex multiple
> times on the same context in order to retrieve the same digest twice. I
> expected OpenSSL to fail with an error code, but SHA256 seems to permit it
> whereas SHA3 seems to cause a segmentation fault. The documentation does not
> explicitely forbid or allow it, so I am wondering where this should be
> addressed: In the implementation of EVP_*, in SHA2, in SHA3, in the
> documentation, or not at all?
I believe this should not be allowed. Probably this is a documentation issue.
Matt
