Link in passphrase-encoding(7) in relevant documentation

[openssl.git] / doc / man3 / PEM_read_CMS.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/PEM_read_CMS.pod b/doc/man3/PEM_read_CMS.pod
index 65a114d6777fbab3033430bdaee58412475a608b..0c22618b0b38a86e88f57a511d919e6ca5901a4f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/PEM_read_CMS.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/PEM_read_CMS.pod
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ PEM_write_TYPE() writes the PEM encoding of the object B<a> to the file B<fp>.
 
 PEM_write_bio_TYPE() similarly writes to the BIO B<bp>.
 
+=head1 NOTES
+
+These functions make no assumption regarding the pass phrase received from the
+password callback.
+It will simply be treated as a byte sequence.
+
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 PEM_read_TYPE() and PEM_read_bio_TYPE() return a pointer to an allocated
@@ -83,7 +89,8 @@ or zero on error.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<PEM_read(3)>
+L<PEM_read(3)>,
+L<passphrase-encoding(7)>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT