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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2020-08-16 21:25:08 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2020-08-21 09:23:58 +0200
commitece9304c96f71277ca95696d9bc49fdec51e9f17 (patch)
tree7038f8760e1538754bc67371cb5a466a83935dad /doc/man7/OSSL_PROVIDER-base.pod
parentf650993f1de3dbb5eda9009ad0c4895a7b1b7fe2 (diff)
Rename OSSL_SERIALIZER / OSSL_DESERIALIZER to OSSL_ENCODE / OSSL_DECODE
Fixes #12455 Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12660)
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diff --git a/doc/man7/OSSL_PROVIDER-base.pod b/doc/man7/OSSL_PROVIDER-base.pod
index 5896c5a91e..06b608be60 100644
--- a/doc/man7/OSSL_PROVIDER-base.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/OSSL_PROVIDER-base.pod
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ OSSL_PROVIDER-base - OpenSSL base provider
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-The OpenSSL base provider supplies the serialization for OpenSSL's
+The OpenSSL base provider supplies the encoding for OpenSSL's
asymmetric cryptography.
=head2 Properties
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ implementations of this provider and none other.
=back
These may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select
-which data are to be serialized. Either the private key material, the public
+which data are to be encoded. Either the private key material, the public
key material or the domain parameters can be selected.
=over 4
@@ -50,32 +50,32 @@ key material or the domain parameters can be selected.
=back
These may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select
-the serialization output format. Either the DER, PEM and plaintext are
+the encoding output format. Either the DER, PEM and plaintext are
currently permitted.
=head1 OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS
The OpenSSL base provider supports these operations and algorithms:
-=head2 Asymmetric Key Serializer
+=head2 Asymmetric Key Encoder
-In addition to "provider=base", some of these serializers define the
+In addition to "provider=base", some of these encoders define the
property "fips=yes", to allow them to be used together with the FIPS
provider.
=over 4
-=item RSA, see L<OSSL_SERIALIZER-RSA(7)>
+=item RSA, see L<OSSL_ENCODER-RSA(7)>
-=item DH, see L<OSSL_SERIALIZER-DH(7)>
+=item DH, see L<OSSL_ENCODER-DH(7)>
-=item DSA, see L<OSSL_SERIALIZER-DSA(7)>
+=item DSA, see L<OSSL_ENCODER-DSA(7)>
-=item EC, see L<OSSL_SERIALIZER-EC(7)>
+=item EC, see L<OSSL_ENCODER-EC(7)>
-=item X25519, see L<OSSL_SERIALIZER-X25519(7)>
+=item X25519, see L<OSSL_ENCODER-X25519(7)>
-=item X448, see L<OSSL_SERIALIZER-X448(7)>
+=item X448, see L<OSSL_ENCODER-X448(7)>
=back