Fix doc for EC_GROUP_set_curve()

(cherry picked from commit eb2ff0408ac6e934e05db7ed4006855c018584f1)

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10235)

diff --git a/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_new.pod b/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_new.pod
index 4269993ecb3a0dd52d19d2ec402009ec9e80159c..c80b191785c4dc1859ce0b1a59c173924459f41b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_new.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EC_GROUP_new.pod
@@ -82,10 +82,12 @@ B<params> and EC_GROUP_new_from_ecpkparameters() will create a group from the
 specific PK B<params>.
 
 EC_GROUP_set_curve() sets the curve parameters B<p>, B<a> and B<b>. For a curve
-over Fp B<b> is the prime for the field. For a curve over F2^m B<p> represents
+over Fp B<p> is the prime for the field. For a curve over F2^m B<p> represents
 the irreducible polynomial - each bit represents a term in the polynomial.
 Therefore there will either be three or five bits set dependent on whether the
 polynomial is a trinomial or a pentanomial.
+In either case, B<a> and B<b> represents the coefficients a and b from the
+relevant equation introduced above.
 
 EC_group_get_curve() obtains the previously set curve parameters.