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| author | Beat Bolli <dev@drbeat.li> | 2021-07-30 18:39:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-08-04 15:02:27 +1000 |
| commit | 2fc02378ffcd9a266077eeea224890c534b7aaef (patch) | |
| tree | 257bb9c5ffd11e27ffcf6f7e0126b833c66aef03 /doc/man7/fips_module.pod | |
| parent | 92c03668c0cd77434006b613e3429888a0a8ecfe (diff) | |
doc: use the documented =item markers
The generated lists[1] look weird when using a dash as the list item
character. Perlpod documents[2] '*' for unordered lists and '1.' (note
the period) for ordered lists. Use these characters instead.
[1] e.g. https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man7/migration_guide.html#New-Algorithms
[2] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16190)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7/fips_module.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/fips_module.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/fips_module.pod b/doc/man7/fips_module.pod index b47ed279f6..e374651fa5 100644 --- a/doc/man7/fips_module.pod +++ b/doc/man7/fips_module.pod @@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ legacy APIs or features that avoid the FIPS module. Specifically this includes: =over 4 -=item - +=item * Low level cryptographic APIs (use the high level APIs, such as EVP, instead) -=item - +=item * Engines -=item - +=item * Any functions that create or modify custom "METHODS" (for example EVP_MD_meth_new(), EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(), EVP_PKEY_meth_new(), RSA_meth_new(), @@ -110,21 +110,21 @@ some disadvantages to this approach: =over 4 -=item - +=item * You may not want all applications to use the FIPS module. It may be the case that some applications should and some should not use the FIPS module. -=item - +=item * If applications take explicit steps to not load the default config file or set different settings. This method will not work for these cases. -=item - +=item * The algorithms available in the FIPS module are a subset of the algorithms that are available in the default OpenSSL Provider. @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ that are available in the default OpenSSL Provider. If any applications attempt to use any algorithms that are not present, then they will fail. -=item - +=item * Usage of certain deprecated APIs avoids the use of the FIPS module. |