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| author | slontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com> | 2021-08-25 11:50:20 +1000 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2021-08-31 12:18:04 +0200 |
| commit | 69222552252c86e7d68dcc24b2ce1aa0793ab3aa (patch) | |
| tree | 9feb8e20bccc81871a0d49bf0ce9969a1b65e537 /doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | |
| parent | 028593f546f66d50d399a4f9286364d97c68da78 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-69222552252c86e7d68dcc24b2ce1aa0793ab3aa.tar.gz | |
Document that EVP_get_cipherbyname() does not work for some new algorithm names.
These algorithms were added to providers but have no const EVP_CIPHER*
mapping. Ciphers for SIV and CTS were previously only available via low level
function calls that are deprecated.
Reported by @reaperhulk.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16414)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod index cb36629684..62d9047dce 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod @@ -447,6 +447,11 @@ EVP_CipherFinal_ex() instead. Return an EVP_CIPHER structure when passed a cipher name, a NID or an ASN1_OBJECT structure. +EVP_get_cipherbyname() will return NULL for algorithms such as "AES-128-SIV", +"AES-128-CBC-CTS" and "CAMELLIA-128-CBC-CTS" which were previously only +accessible via low level interfaces. Use EVP_CIPHER_fetch() instead to retrieve +these algorithms from a provider. + =item EVP_CIPHER_get_nid() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_nid() Return the NID of a cipher when passed an B<EVP_CIPHER> or B<EVP_CIPHER_CTX> |