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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2019-04-03 23:13:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2019-04-04 16:57:00 +0100 |
| commit | 69539990a8152e90dbe1df1124263db126b1e6f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ad99260e37aaa47a12ffe85252bf16052bd375a | |
| parent | fd3a904636aa45401c40e8b86ebacd5135fea2f1 (diff) | |
Correct the documentation about SSL_CIPHER_description()
There are some ciphersuites that were introduced in TLSv1.0/TLSv1.1 but
are backwards compatible with SSLv3.
Fixes #8655
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8658)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod index 51c3941f06..1da3447b44 100644 --- a/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod +++ b/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod @@ -124,7 +124,10 @@ Textual representation of the cipher name. =item <protocol version> -Protocol version, such as B<TLSv1.2>, when the cipher was first defined. +The minimum protocol version that the ciphersuite supports, such as B<TLSv1.2>. +Note that this is not always the same as the protocol version in which the +ciphersuite was first defined because some ciphersuites are backwards compatible +with earlier protocol versions. =item Kx=<key exchange> |