Commit 0cbfcc39 authored by Matt Caswell's avatar Matt Caswell
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Correct the documentation about SSL_CIPHER_description() 



There are some ciphersuites that were introduced in TLSv1.0/TLSv1.1 but
are backwards compatible with SSLv3.

Fixes #8655

Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8658)

(cherry picked from commit 69539990)
parent 2423b5f0

doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod

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=item <protocol version>



Protocol version, such as B<TLSv1.2>, when the cipher was first defined.

The minimum protocol version that the ciphersuite supports, such as B<TLSv1.2>.

Note that this is not always the same as the protocol version in which the

ciphersuite was first defined because some ciphersuites are backwards compatible

with earlier protocol versions.



=item Kx=<key exchange>