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authorPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2021-03-24 13:12:40 +1000
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2021-03-26 18:21:36 +1000
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doc: note that RAND lifecycle transitions will be enforced at some point
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14522)
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@@ -272,11 +272,19 @@ error.
All of the remaining functions should return 1 for success or 0 on error.
+=head1 NOTES
+
+The RAND life-cycle is described in L<life_cycle-rand(7)>. Providers should
+ensure that the various transitions listed there are supported. At some point
+the EVP layer will begin enforcing the listed transitions.
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<provider(7)>,
L<RAND(7)>,
-L<EVP_RAND(7)>
+L<EVP_RAND(7)>,
+L<life_cycle-rand(7)>,
+L<EVP_RAND(3)>
=head1 HISTORY