Commit 32b28859 authored by Dr. Matthias St. Pierre's avatar Dr. Matthias St. Pierre Committed by Ben Kaduk
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Improve readability of evp.pod 



The changes are analogous to the ones made in commit 0bf340e1
to x509.pod, see PR #4924.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5012)
parent 8212d505

doc/man7/evp.pod

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@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ evp - high-level cryptographic functions 
The EVP library provides a high-level interface to cryptographic

functions.



L<B<EVP_Seal>I<...>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Open>I<...>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>

provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes".

The L<B<EVP_Seal>I<XXX>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Open>I<XXX>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>

functions provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes".



The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<...>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and

L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<...>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement

The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and

L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement

digital signatures and Message Authentication Codes (MACs). Also see the older

L<B<EVP_Sign>I<...>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Verify>I<...>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>

L<B<EVP_Sign>I<XXX>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Verify>I<XXX>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>

functions.



Symmetric encryption is available with the L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<...>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>

functions.  The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<...>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests.

Symmetric encryption is available with the L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<XXX>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>

functions.  The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests.



The B<EVP_PKEY>I<...> functions provide a high level interface to

The B<EVP_PKEY>I<XXX> functions provide a high level interface to

asymmetric algorithms. To create a new EVP_PKEY see

L<EVP_PKEY_new(3)>. EVP_PKEYs can be associated

with a private key of a particular algorithm by using the functions
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ based encryption. Careful selection of the parameters will provide a PKCS#5 PBKD 
implementation. However, new applications should not typically use this (preferring, for example,

PBKDF2 from PCKS#5).



The L<B<EVP_Encode>I<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and

L<B<EVP_Decode>I<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding

The L<B<EVP_Encode>I<XXX>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and

L<B<EVP_Decode>I<XXX>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding

and decoding.



All the symmetric algorithms (ciphers), digests and asymmetric algorithms