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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-01-14 10:33:03 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-01-16 07:07:27 +1000 |
| commit | 62c3fed0cd52316259e4e2c0e5878bcfa69b38f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 72dd00534999ea41ab76b23b3271a95c1222ac45 /doc | |
| parent | 26aae51347465764c755f0985bd1ac85d3f734e6 (diff) | |
Deprecate the low level RC5 functions
Use of the low level RC5 functions has been informally discouraged for a long
time. We now formally deprecate them.
Applications should instead use the EVP APIs, e.g. EVP_EncryptInit_ex,
EVP_EncryptUpdate, EVP_EncryptFinal_ex and the equivalently named decrypt
functions.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10834)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/RC4_set_key.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/RC4_set_key.pod b/doc/man3/RC4_set_key.pod index 661a694479..2b314f022b 100644 --- a/doc/man3/RC4_set_key.pod +++ b/doc/man3/RC4_set_key.pod @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ RC4_set_key, RC4 - RC4 encryption #include <openssl/rc4.h> +Deprecated since OpenSSL 3.0, can be hidden entirely by defining +B<OPENSSL_API_COMPAT> with a suitable version value, see +L<openssl_user_macros(7)>: + void RC4_set_key(RC4_KEY *key, int len, const unsigned char *data); void RC4(RC4_KEY *key, unsigned long len, const unsigned char *indata, @@ -15,6 +19,10 @@ RC4_set_key, RC4 - RC4 encryption =head1 DESCRIPTION +All of the functions described on this page are deprecated. Applications should +instead use L<EVP_EncryptInit_ex(3)>, L<EVP_EncryptUpdate(3)> and +L<EVP_EncryptFinal_ex(3)> or the equivalently named decrypt functions. + This library implements the Alleged RC4 cipher, which is described for example in I<Applied Cryptography>. It is believed to be compatible with RC4[TM], a proprietary cipher of RSA Security Inc. @@ -54,6 +62,10 @@ multiple encryptions using the same key stream. L<EVP_EncryptInit(3)> +=head1 HISTORY + +All of these functions were deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0. + =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. |