e <a href="../man3/i2d_ECDSA_SIG.html">i2d_ECDSA_SIG(3)</a> and <a href="../man3/d2i_ECDSA_SIG.html">d2i_ECDSA_SIG(3)</a> for information about encoding and decoding ECDSA signatures to/from DER.</p>

<p>All of the functions described below are deprecated. Applications should use the higher level <b>EVP</b> interface such as <a href="../man3/EVP_DigestSignInit.html">EVP_DigestSignInit(3)</a> or <a href="../man3/EVP_DigestVerifyInit.html">EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)</a> instead.</p>

<p>ECDSA_size() returns the 