From: Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 21:14:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Improve readability of evp.pod
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_1-pre1~240
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32b28859e0e194b8995cb9bcf2c9d65d4516835b;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git

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 <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5012)
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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.
 
-L<B<EVP_Seal>I<...>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Open>I<...>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>
-provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes".
+The L<B<EVP_Seal>I<XXX>|EVP_SealInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Open>I<XXX>|EVP_OpenInit(3)>
+functions provide public key encryption and decryption to implement digital "envelopes".
 
-The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<...>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and
-L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<...>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement
+The L<B<EVP_DigestSign>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestSignInit(3)> and
+L<B<EVP_DigestVerify>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestVerifyInit(3)> functions implement
 digital signatures and Message Authentication Codes (MACs). Also see the older
-L<B<EVP_Sign>I<...>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Verify>I<...>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>
+L<B<EVP_Sign>I<XXX>|EVP_SignInit(3)> and L<B<EVP_Verify>I<XXX>|EVP_VerifyInit(3)>
 functions.
 
-Symmetric encryption is available with the L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<...>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>
-functions.  The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<...>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests.
+Symmetric encryption is available with the L<B<EVP_Encrypt>I<XXX>|EVP_EncryptInit(3)>
+functions.  The L<B<EVP_Digest>I<XXX>|EVP_DigestInit(3)> functions provide message digests.
 
-The B<EVP_PKEY>I<...> functions provide a high level interface to
+The B<EVP_PKEY>I<XXX> functions provide a high level interface to
 asymmetric algorithms. To create a new EVP_PKEY see
 L<EVP_PKEY_new(3)>. 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 L<B<EVP_Encode>I<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and
-L<B<EVP_Decode>I<...>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding
+The L<B<EVP_Encode>I<XXX>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> and
+L<B<EVP_Decode>I<XXX>|EVP_EncodeInit(3)> functions implement base 64 encoding
 and decoding.
 
 All the symmetric algorithms (ciphers), digests and asymmetric algorithms