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Improve documentation of standard IANA cipher suite names.
Reviewed-by: Paul Yang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <[email protected]> (Merged from openssl#23539)
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=head1 CIPHER SUITE NAMES
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The following lists give the SSL or TLS cipher suites names from the
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relevant specification and their OpenSSL equivalents. It should be noted,
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that several cipher suite names do not include the authentication used,
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e.g. DES-CBC3-SHA. In these cases, RSA authentication is used.
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The following lists give the standard SSL or TLS cipher suites names from the
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relevant specification and their OpenSSL equivalents. You can use either
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standard names or OpenSSL names in cipher lists, or a mix of both.
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It should be noted, that several cipher suite names do not include the
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authentication used, e.g. DES-CBC3-SHA. In these cases, RSA authentication
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is used.
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=head2 SSL v3.0 cipher suites
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The B<-convert> option was added in OpenSSL 1.1.1.
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Support for standard IANA names in cipher lists was added in
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OpenSSL 3.2.0.
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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Copyright 2000-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

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