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| author | Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-10-23 19:46:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-10-23 19:46:02 +0000 |
| commit | e9fcefce9bb70f20c272a996443928c5f6ab8cd8 (patch) | |
| tree | ae816a5a768ec78af3610e509ca39507b33aa9f7 /doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod | |
| parent | c07d7b3a386974c338492659291008bed07948e6 (diff) | |
| download | src-e9fcefce9bb70f20c272a996443928c5f6ab8cd8.tar.gz src-e9fcefce9bb70f20c272a996443928c5f6ab8cd8.zip | |
Import OpenSSL 1.0.2d.vendor/openssl/1.0.2d
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/vendor-crypto/openssl/dist/; revision=289848
svn path=/vendor-crypto/openssl/1.0.2d/; revision=289849; tag=vendor/openssl/1.0.2d
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod b/doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod index 2e113be6065c..c598f4d4ce26 100644 --- a/doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod +++ b/doc/ssl/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod @@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ If SSL_CIPHER_description() cannot handle a built-in cipher, the according description of the cipher property is B<unknown>. This case should not occur. +The standard terminology for ephemeral Diffie-Hellman schemes is DHE +(finite field) or ECDHE (elliptic curve). This version of OpenSSL +idiosyncratically reports these schemes as EDH and EECDH, even though +it also accepts the standard terminology. + +It is recommended to use the standard terminology (DHE and ECDHE) +during configuration (e.g. via SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list) for clarity of +configuration. OpenSSL versions after 1.0.2 will report the standard +terms via SSL_CIPHER_get_name and SSL_CIPHER_description. + =head1 RETURN VALUES See DESCRIPTION @@ -116,6 +126,7 @@ See DESCRIPTION =head1 SEE ALSO L<ssl(3)|ssl(3)>, L<SSL_get_current_cipher(3)|SSL_get_current_cipher(3)>, -L<SSL_get_ciphers(3)|SSL_get_ciphers(3)>, L<ciphers(1)|ciphers(1)> +L<SSL_get_ciphers(3)|SSL_get_ciphers(3)>, L<ciphers(1)|ciphers(1)>, +L<SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(3)|SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(3)> =cut |