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-rw-r--r--lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
index 552d95d7dc..2718ee9055 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
+++ b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
scheme. <c>VerStr</c> contains a text variant of the version.</p>
<pre>
> <input>info_lib().</input>
-[{&lt;&lt;"OpenSSL"&gt;&gt;,9469983,&lt;&lt;"OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005"&gt;&gt;}]
+[{&lt;&lt;"OpenSSL"&gt;&gt;,269484095,&lt;&lt;"OpenSSL 1.1.0c 10 Nov 2016""&gt;&gt;}]
</pre>
<note><p>
From OTP R16 the <em>numeric version</em> represents the version of the OpenSSL
diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml
index a958bdfcb7..6950dfeec3 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml
+++ b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml
@@ -42,9 +42,12 @@
<title>DEPENDENCIES</title>
<p>The current crypto implementation uses nifs to interface
- OpenSSLs crypto library and requires <em>OpenSSL</em> package
- version 0.9.8 or higher. FIPS mode support requires at least
- version 1.0.1 and a FIPS capable OpenSSL installation.</p>
+ OpenSSLs crypto library and may work with limited functionality
+ with as old versions as <em>OpenSSL</em> 0.9.8c.
+ FIPS mode support requires at least
+ version 1.0.1 and a FIPS capable OpenSSL installation. We recommend using a
+ version that is officially supported by the OpenSSL project. API compatible backends like
+ LibreSSL should also work.</p>
<p>Source releases of OpenSSL can be downloaded from the <url href="http://www.openssl.org">OpenSSL</url> project home page,
or mirror sites listed there.