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authorslontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>2023-02-22 10:11:33 +1000
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2023-02-28 14:29:42 +1100
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Add provider pre-fetching documentation
Clearly document that implicit fetching is slower when using providers, and explain prefetching. Added to crypto.pod and migration_guide.pod links to it. Add a link to EVP_default_properties_enable_fips() in crypto.pod. Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/20354)
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@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ The RIPEMD-160 algorithm which produces a 160-bit output from a given input.
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+=head1 NOTES
+
+Developers should be aware of the negative performance implications of
+calling this function multiple times and should consider using
+L<EVP_MD_fetch(3)> instead.
+See L<crypto(7)/Performance> for further information.
+
=head1 RETURN VALUES
These functions return a B<EVP_MD> structure that contains the