=head1 DESCRIPTION
-The EVP cipher routines are a high level interface to certain
+The EVP cipher routines are a high-level interface to certain
symmetric ciphers.
The B<EVP_CIPHER> type is a structure for cipher method implementation.
=item EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_CTRL_AEAD_SET_IVLEN, ivlen, NULL)
-Sets the CCM nonce (IV) length. This call can only be made before specifying an
+Sets the CCM nonce (IV) length. This call can only be made before specifying a
nonce value. The nonce length is given by B<15 - L> so it is 7 by default for
AES.
=head1 NOTES
Where possible the B<EVP> interface to symmetric ciphers should be used in
-preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
+preference to the low-level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
transparent to the cipher used and much more flexible. Additionally, the
B<EVP> interface will ensure the use of platform specific cryptographic
-acceleration such as AES-NI (the low level interfaces do not provide the
+acceleration such as AES-NI (the low-level interfaces do not provide the
guarantee).
PKCS padding works by adding B<n> padding bytes of value B<n> to make the total