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commit 6da0f274834d60c2ad84109e00430f9e4f7ffb85
Author: Dmitry Belyavskiy <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Jul 30 16:03:55 2021 +0200
Document necessary error code processing
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <[email protected]>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16187)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man7/migration_guide.pod | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod b/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod
index 462ef9f122..8cc017dfa6 100644
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@@ -469,6 +469,18 @@ Remove your usage of the low level APIs. In this case you
will need to rewrite y
=back
+=head3 Error code changes
+
+As OpenSSL 3.0 provides a brand new Encoder/Decoder mechanism for working with
+widely used file formats, application code that checks for particular error
+reason codes on key loading failures might need an update.
+
+Password-protected keys may deserve special attention. If only some errors
+are treated as an indicator that the user should be asked about the password
again,
+it's worth testing these scenarios and processing the newly relevant codes.
+
+There may be more cases to treat specially, depending on the calling
application code.
+
=head2 Upgrading from OpenSSL 1.0.2
Upgrading to OpenSSL 3.0 from OpenSSL 1.0.2 is likely to be significantly more
