From 32b28859e0e194b8995cb9bcf2c9d65d4516835b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dr. Matthias St. Pierre" Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:14:02 +0100 Subject: Improve readability of evp.pod The changes are analogous to the ones made in commit 0bf340e1350e to x509.pod, see PR #4924. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5012) --- doc/man7/evp.pod | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/man7/evp.pod b/doc/man7/evp.pod index fbc357eb48..e3823bac7f 100644 --- a/doc/man7/evp.pod +++ b/doc/man7/evp.pod @@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ evp - high-level cryptographic functions The EVP library provides a high-level interface to cryptographic functions. -LI<...>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and LI<...>|EVP_OpenInit(3)> -provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes". +The LI|EVP_SealInit(3)> and LI|EVP_OpenInit(3)> +functions provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes". -The LI<...>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and -LI<...>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement +The LI|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and +LI|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement digital signatures and Message Authentication Codes (MACs). Also see the older -LI<...>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and LI<...>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)> +LI|EVP_SignInit(3)> and LI|EVP_VerifyInit(3)> functions. -Symmetric encryption is available with the LI<...>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)> -functions. The LI<...>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests. +Symmetric encryption is available with the LI|EVP_EncryptInit(3)> +functions. The LI|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests. -The BI<...> functions provide a high level interface to +The BI functions provide a high level interface to asymmetric algorithms. To create a new EVP_PKEY see L. 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 LI<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and -LI<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding +The LI|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and +LI|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding and decoding. All the symmetric algorithms (ciphers), digests and asymmetric algorithms -- cgit v1.2.1