<div dir="ltr"><div>The first signing example at <a href="https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/EVP_Signing_and_Verifying" target="_blank">https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/EVP_Signing_and_Verifying</a>
 explicitly calls both <span style="font-family:monospace">EVP_DigestInit_ex()</span> and <span style="font-family:monospace">EVP_DigestSignInit()</span>. Is 
the former really necessary? It appears that the implementation of 
<span style="font-family:monospace">EVP_DigestSignInit()</span> in all versions of OpenSSL internally invokes 
<span style="font-family:monospace">EVP_DigestInit_ex()</span> so I'm confused by this example. Did I miss 
something?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tom.III</div><div><br></div></div>