From 69539990a8152e90dbe1df1124263db126b1e6f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Caswell Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 23:13:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8658) --- doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod b/doc/man3/SSL_CIPHER_get_name.pod index 51c3941f06..1da3447b44 100644 --- 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, such as B, when the cipher was first defined. +The minimum protocol version that the ciphersuite supports, such as B. +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= -- 2.25.1