From 6b20e866bab480a8dd23b869ff07d7aed631f1d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingela Anderton Andin <ingela@erlang.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:08:36 +0200
Subject: crypto: Update documentation to reflect new version policy
---
lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml | 2 +-
lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto_app.xml | 9 ++++++---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
(limited to 'lib')
diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
index d0deaceaaf..96fd735870 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>
-[{<<"OpenSSL">>,9469983,<<"OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005">>}]
+[{<<"OpenSSL">>,269484095,<<"OpenSSL 1.1.0c 10 Nov 2016"">>}]
</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.
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