Add provider pre-fetching documentation

[thirdparty/openssl.git] / doc / man3 / EVP_rc2_cbc.pod

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_rc2_cbc.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_rc2_cbc.pod
index 703ff217412df7a6afd1fe1308625c00e066312d..26966e34bb70b6646e11ae05093c5a11208ec246 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_rc2_cbc.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_rc2_cbc.pod
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ EVP_rc2_64_cbc
 
  #include <openssl/evp.h>
 
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cbc(void)
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cfb(void)
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cfb64(void)
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_ecb(void)
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_ofb(void)
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_40_cbc(void)
- const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_64_cbc(void)
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cbc(void);
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cfb(void);
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_cfb64(void);
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_ecb(void);
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_ofb(void);
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_40_cbc(void);
+ const EVP_CIPHER *EVP_rc2_64_cbc(void);
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ functions to set the key length and effective key length.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 NOTES
+
+Developers should be aware of the negative performance implications of
+calling these functions multiple times and should consider using
+L<EVP_CIPHER_fetch(3)> instead.
+See L<crypto(7)/Performance> for further information.
+
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 These functions return an B<EVP_CIPHER> structure that contains the
@@ -65,7 +72,7 @@ L<EVP_CIPHER_meth_new(3)>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2017-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright 2017-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
 this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy