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 11:08:44 +0000 (12:08 +0100)
commit971dbab4ad20193c27e8c3865e92e8f487b89334
tree5d313dc28f9084704339a7d1e96d9599d68acfcb
parent051228353a9842eede597294603cc06a55e3a22c
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)
doc/man3/EVP_DigestInit.pod
doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
doc/man7/crypto.pod