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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-06-11 09:08:01 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-07-30 20:15:22 +1000 |
| commit | dfc0857d8191d43be320f4ba472b7c782248a35d (patch) | |
| tree | 1fc044e3ce75b9f8518461c157f7430725a6ad85 /doc/man7/provider.pod | |
| parent | aa97970c1a69ae15b4191aa58cdb56e016f15922 (diff) | |
serialisation: Add a built-in base provider.
Move the libcrypto serialisation functionality into a place where it can
be provided at some point. The serialisation still remains native in the
default provider.
Add additional code to the list command to display what kind of serialisation
each entry is capable of.
Having the FIPS provider auto load the base provider is a future
(but necessary) enhancement.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12104)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7/provider.pod')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/provider.pod b/doc/man7/provider.pod index 08edb4a1dd..62ff8695f1 100644 --- a/doc/man7/provider.pod +++ b/doc/man7/provider.pod @@ -268,6 +268,14 @@ algorithm identifier to the appropriate fetching function. The default provider is built in as part of the F<libcrypto> library. Should it be needed (if other providers are loaded and offer implementations of the same algorithms), the property "provider=default" +can be used as a search criterion for these implementations. The default +provider includes all the functionality of the base provider below. + +=head2 Base provider + +The base provider is built in as part of the F<libcrypto> library. +Should it be needed (if other providers are loaded and offer +implementations of the same algorithms), the property "provider=base" can be used as a search criterion for these implementations. Some non-cryptographic algorithms (such as serializers for loading keys and parameters from files) are not FIPS algorithm implementations in themselves but |