ill consider them as read-only copies.</p>

<h1 id="NOTES">NOTES</h1>

<p>In accordance with the OpenSSL naming convention the key obtained from or assigned to the <i>pkey</i> using the <b>1</b> functions must be freed as well as <i>pkey</i>.</p>

<p>EVP_PKEY_assign_RSA(), EVP_PKEY_assign_DSA(), EVP_PKEY_assign_DH(), EVP_PKEY_assign_EC_KEY(), EVP_PKEY_assign_POLY1305() and EVP_PKEY_assign_SIPHASH() are implemented as macros.</p>

<p>EVP_PKEY_assign_EC_KEY() looks at the curve name id to determine if the pas