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authorTheo Buehler <tb@cvs.openbsd.org>2024-05-08 08:24:24 +0000
committerTheo Buehler <tb@cvs.openbsd.org>2024-05-08 08:24:24 +0000
commit540eee519585da364d6f85a3c5e0d43cda7603dc (patch)
treeb07ce6bcce6416134764a85087b13bfaab2a35f2 /share/man
parentf6888005f50bf08a763f6c9d52568ec106bb73ab (diff)
avoid various repetitions in the descriptions of libcrypto and libssl
with/ok jmc
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diff --git a/share/man/man3/intro.3 b/share/man/man3/intro.3
index 512472e2a43..6ea81903e6a 100644
--- a/share/man/man3/intro.3
+++ b/share/man/man3/intro.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: intro.3,v 1.97 2023/02/20 16:08:37 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: intro.3,v 1.98 2024/05/08 08:24:23 tb Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: intro.3,v 1.5 1995/05/10 22:46:24 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)intro.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 20 2023 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 8 2024 $
.Dt INTRO 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -100,9 +100,8 @@ An implementation of the Concise Binary Object Representation
encoding format defined in RFC 7049.
.Pp
.It libcrypto Pq Fl lcrypto
-The OpenSSL crypto library.
-Implements a range of cryptographic algorithms,
-providing such functionality as symmetric encryption, public key cryptography,
+Provides functionality such as symmetric encryption, public key cryptography,
+digests, message authentication codes,
and certificate handling.
See
.Xr crypto 3 .
@@ -338,11 +337,9 @@ See
.Xr sio_open 3 .
.Pp
.It libssl Pq Fl lssl
-The OpenSSL ssl library implements the Secure Sockets Layer
-.Pq SSL v3
-and Transport Layer Security
-.Pq TLS v1
-protocols.
+Implements the Transport Layer Security
+.Pq TLS
+protocol, the successor to the Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
See
.Xr ssl 3 .
.Pp