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NAME

CSSM_DeleteContext — Free the context structure (CDSA)

SYNOPSIS

# include <cssm.h>
CSSM_RETURN CSSMAPI CSSM_DeleteContext
(CSSM_CC_HANDLE CCHandle)

LIBRARY

Common Security Services Manager library (cdsa$incssm300_shr.exe)

PARAMETERS

CCHandle (input) 

The handle that describes a context to be deleted.

DESCRIPTION

This function frees the context structure allocated by any of the CSSM_Createxxxxx context functions.

RETURN VALUE

A CSSM_RETURN value indicating success or specifying a particular error condition. The value CSSM_OK indicates success. All other values represent an error condition.

ERRORS

Errors are described in the CDSA Technical Standard.

CSSMERR_CSSM_INVALID_CONTEXT_HANDLE

SEE ALSO

Books

Intel CDSA Application Developer's Guide

Online Help

Functions: CSSM_CSP_CreateAsymmetricContext, CSSM_CSP_CreateKeyGenContext, CSSM_CSP_CreateDigestContext, CSSM_CSP_CreateSignatureContext, CSSM_CSP_CreateSymmetricContext, and others.