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: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8658)

(cherry picked from commit 69539990a8152e90dbe1df1124263db126b1e6f3)

diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod
index 4c12c5ed20d054092c94395f7c6a5ac3896cccd1..8800bbdc6c2a4e63f4431ebdf8f9eac728c8daf5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod
@@ -124,7 +124,10 @@ Textual representation of the cipher name.
 
 =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>