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authorJeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>2015-06-06 21:52:56 -0400
committerRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2015-06-08 20:21:23 -0400
commit31909e796878a8f546b290916e5bb53fbbfc91f4 (patch)
tree2215beee44f19c70dffd4bfcd0c5308945d0ccb5 /doc/crypto
parent34cdff92e97b3d65e8f1b6d60779107c99d3a931 (diff)
Explicitly mention PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC in EVP doc.
Signed-off-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (cherry picked from commit 82c4d793181058de9fde5c9088fd400fdb7e01e3)
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/EVP_BytesToKey.pod b/doc/crypto/EVP_BytesToKey.pod
index 5d6059528e..a9b6bb0c73 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/EVP_BytesToKey.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/EVP_BytesToKey.pod
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ If the total key and IV length is less than the digest length and
B<MD5> is used then the derivation algorithm is compatible with PKCS#5 v1.5
otherwise a non standard extension is used to derive the extra data.
-Newer applications should use more standard algorithms such as PBKDF2 as
-defined in PKCS#5v2.1 for key derivation.
+Newer applications should use a more modern algorithm such as PBKDF2 as
+defined in PKCS#5v2.1 and provided by PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC.
=head1 KEY DERIVATION ALGORITHM