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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-04-05 10:53:11 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-04-05 15:43:37 +0200 |
commit | de3955f66225e42bfae710c50b51c98aa4616ac1 (patch) | |
tree | 402b85a2df41ef5f3382d0316dbce51bed25be9a /doc/man5 | |
parent | cb92964563a053d5d9c0810912fa6d3ff35c1e16 (diff) |
EVP configuration section: add 'default_properties' command
The value of the 'default_properties' command is simply passed to
EVP_set_default_properties().
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8681)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man5')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man5/config.pod | 29 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod index 985b07ff3b..cac4ef6742 100644 --- a/doc/man5/config.pod +++ b/doc/man5/config.pod @@ -274,12 +274,33 @@ available to the provider. =head2 EVP Configuration Module -This modules has the name B<alg_section> which points to a section containing +This module has the name B<alg_section> which points to a section containing algorithm commands. -Currently the only algorithm command supported is B<fips_mode> whose -value can only be the boolean string B<off>. If B<fips_mode> is set to B<on>, -an error occurs as this library version is not FIPS capable. +The supported algorithm commands are: + +=over 4 + +=item B<default_properties> + +The value may be anything that is acceptable as a property query +string for EVP_set_default_properties(). + +=item B<fips_mode> (deprecated) + +The value is a boolean that can be B<yes> or B<no>. If the value is +B<yes>, this is exactly equivalent to: + + default_properties = fips=yes + +If the value is B<no>, nothing happens. + +=back + +These two commands should not be used together, as there is no control +over how they affect each other. +The use of B<fips_mode> is strongly discouraged and is only present +for backward compatibility with earlier OpenSSL FIPS modules. =head2 SSL Configuration Module |