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diff --git a/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod b/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod index 61641324a7..1434f2fde2 100644 --- a/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod +++ b/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod @@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ To ensure the future compatibility, the engines should be turned to providers. To prefer the provider-based hardware offload, you can specify the default properties to prefer your provider. +Setting engine-based or application-based default low-level crypto method such +as B<RSA_METHOD> or B<EC_KEY_METHOD> is still possible and keys inside the +default provider will use the engine-based implementation for the crypto +operations. However B<EVP_PKEY>s created by decoding by using B<OSSL_DECODER>, +B<PEM_> or B<d2i_> APIs will be provider-based. To create a fully legacy +B<EVP_PKEY>s L<EVP_PKEY_set1_RSA(3)>, L<EVP_PKEY_set1_EC_KEY(3)> or similar +functions must be used. + =head3 Versioning Scheme The OpenSSL versioning scheme has changed with the OpenSSL 3.0 release. The new |