Clarify the documentation for the "byname" functions
authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:34:19 +0000 (15:34 +0100)
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:15:16 +0000 (12:15 +0100)
commit81cb26d457f866efdc3a22ffb018327c5a002570
tree5ecf4eade64bfc2c479255dbe51b3a9de314b9a6
parentdd292ed62cc5d3eb0c529aa51a07ec1ed34a9a5f
Clarify the documentation for the "byname" functions

Make it clear that the cipher/digest objects returned from
EVP_get_cipherbyname() and EVP_get_digestbyname() functions have no
associated implementation fetched from a provider.

Fixes #16864

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16893)

(cherry picked from commit 971dbab4ad20193c27e8c3865e92e8f487b89334)
doc/man3/EVP_DigestInit.pod
doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
doc/man7/crypto.pod