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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2021-10-22 15:34:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2021-10-27 12:08:44 +0100 |
| commit | 971dbab4ad20193c27e8c3865e92e8f487b89334 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d313dc28f9084704339a7d1e96d9599d68acfcb /doc/man7 | |
| parent | 051228353a9842eede597294603cc06a55e3a22c (diff) | |
Clarify the documentation for the "byname" functions
Make it clear that the cipher/digest objects returned from
EVP_get_cipherbyname() and EVP_get_digestbyname() functions have no
associated implementation fetched from a provider.
Fixes #16864
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16893)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/crypto.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/crypto.pod b/doc/man7/crypto.pod index 9aa667118d..2b09ad8903 100644 --- a/doc/man7/crypto.pod +++ b/doc/man7/crypto.pod @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ call to L<EVP_MD_fetch(3)>. =head2 Implicit fetch OpenSSL has a number of functions that return an algorithm object with no -associated implementation, such as L<EVP_sha256(3)>, -L<EVP_blake2b512(3)> or L<EVP_aes_128_cbc(3)>. These are present for +associated implementation, such as L<EVP_sha256(3)>, L<EVP_aes_128_cbc(3)>, +L<EVP_get_cipherbyname(3)> or L<EVP_get_digestbyname(3)>. These are present for compatibility with OpenSSL before version 3.0 where explicit fetching was not available. |