Expand the XTS documentation

Explain that XTS does not support streaming, and that the IV value is the
tweak.

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11461)

(cherry picked from commit 70d80ef9898ddbe03841efd2df2f526b71829d7f)

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_aes.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_aes.pod
index 4192a9ec369f90a4fcd33b445285dfa5ab33e62b..7db48a427ffecf2443613ae463bf787be31c8c3b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_aes.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_aes.pod
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@ In particular, XTS-AES-128 (B<EVP_aes_128_xts>) takes input of a 256-bit key to
 achieve AES 128-bit security, and XTS-AES-256 (B<EVP_aes_256_xts>) takes input
 of a 512-bit key to achieve AES 256-bit security.
 
+The XTS implementation in OpenSSL does not support streaming. That is there must
+only be one L<EVP_EncryptUpdate(3)> call per L<EVP_EncryptInit_ex(3)> call (and
+similarly with the "Decrypt" functions).
+
+The I<iv> parameter to L<EVP_EncryptInit_ex(3)> or L<EVP_DecryptInit_ex(3)> is
+the XTS "tweak" value.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES