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| author | Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> | 2021-07-30 16:03:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2021-08-05 10:03:42 +1000 |
| commit | 6da0f274834d60c2ad84109e00430f9e4f7ffb85 (patch) | |
| tree | 39f7379a010876d6d7da9c89e855e2b326f4b506 /doc/man7 | |
| parent | 6b9d3b7c5ee63757c7bfb6f3761fb9ea35ac64a5 (diff) | |
Document necessary error code processing
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16187)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/migration_guide.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod b/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod index 462ef9f122..8cc017dfa6 100644 --- a/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod +++ b/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod @@ -469,6 +469,18 @@ Remove your usage of the low level APIs. In this case you will need to rewrite y =back +=head3 Error code changes + +As OpenSSL 3.0 provides a brand new Encoder/Decoder mechanism for working with +widely used file formats, application code that checks for particular error +reason codes on key loading failures might need an update. + +Password-protected keys may deserve special attention. If only some errors +are treated as an indicator that the user should be asked about the password again, +it's worth testing these scenarios and processing the newly relevant codes. + +There may be more cases to treat specially, depending on the calling application code. + =head2 Upgrading from OpenSSL 1.0.2 Upgrading to OpenSSL 3.0 from OpenSSL 1.0.2 is likely to be significantly more |