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commit 32b28859e0e194b8995cb9bcf2c9d65d4516835b
Author: Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Jan 3 22:14:02 2018 +0100
Improve readability of evp.pod
The changes are analogous to the ones made in commit 0bf340e1350e
to x509.pod, see PR #4924.
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <[email protected]>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5012)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man7/evp.pod | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man7/evp.pod b/doc/man7/evp.pod
index fbc357e..e3823ba 100644
--- a/doc/man7/evp.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/evp.pod
@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ evp - high-level cryptographic functions
The EVP library provides a high-level interface to cryptographic
functions.
-L<B<EVP_Seal>I<...>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Open>I<...>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>
-provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes".
+The L<B<EVP_Seal>I<XXX>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and
L<B<EVP_Open>I<XXX>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>
+functions provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital
"envelopes".
-The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<...>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and
-L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<...>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement
+The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and
+L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement
digital signatures and Message Authentication Codes (MACs). Also see the older
-L<B<EVP_Sign>I<...>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and
L<B<EVP_Verify>I<...>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>
+L<B<EVP_Sign>I<XXX>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and
L<B<EVP_Verify>I<XXX>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>
functions.
-Symmetric encryption is available with the
L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<...>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>
-functions. The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<...>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide
message digests.
+Symmetric encryption is available with the
L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<XXX>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>
+functions. The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide
message digests.
-The B<EVP_PKEY>I<...> functions provide a high level interface to
+The B<EVP_PKEY>I<XXX> functions provide a high level interface to
asymmetric algorithms. To create a new EVP_PKEY see
L<EVP_PKEY_new(3)>. EVP_PKEYs can be associated
with a private key of a particular algorithm by using the functions
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ based encryption. Careful selection of the parameters will
provide a PKCS#5 PBKD
implementation. However, new applications should not typically use this
(preferring, for example,
PBKDF2 from PCKS#5).
-The L<B<EVP_Encode>I<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and
-L<B<EVP_Decode>I<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding
+The L<B<EVP_Encode>I<XXX>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and
+L<B<EVP_Decode>I<XXX>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding
and decoding.
All the symmetric algorithms (ciphers), digests and asymmetric algorithms
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