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diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3
index 6d79ae403c7..d544af0fe42 100644
--- a/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3
+++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3,v 1.19 2022/09/12 14:36:09 tb Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: d2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING.3,v 1.20 2024/02/13 12:38:43 job Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 12 2022 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2024 $
.Dt D2I_ASN1_OCTET_STRING 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -452,3 +452,10 @@ and
.Fn i2d_ASN1_GENERALSTRING
first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.7 and have been available since
.Ox 3.2 .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Other implementations may accept or emit invalid DER encodings of
+GeneralizedTime and UTCTime.
+Portable applications should use
+.Fn ASN1_STRING_length
+to double check whether a given GeneralizedTime or UTCTime object is at least
+15 or 13 bytes, respectively.