In doc/man7/provider-{en,de}coder.pod, clarify where properties are defined

Fixes #27126

Reviewed-by: Paul Yang <kaishen.yy@antfin.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/27132)

diff --git a/doc/man7/provider-decoder.pod b/doc/man7/provider-decoder.pod
index e968e661f7cf735f56b09edca2f94ac574d58209..cd6ab546032577a554d386acfe06935549db1d04 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man7/provider-decoder.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/provider-decoder.pod
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ it decodes. For example, an implementation that decodes an RSA key
 should be named "RSA". Likewise, an implementation that decodes DER data
 from PEM input should be named "DER".
 
-Properties can be used to further specify details about an implementation:
+Properties, as defined in the L<OSSL_ALGORITHM(3)> array element of each
+decoder implementation, can be used to further specify details about an
+implementation:
 
 =over 4
 

diff --git a/doc/man7/provider-encoder.pod b/doc/man7/provider-encoder.pod
index f3e9ce5b1632765702107485b7fb7e176ede1699..1b64701d06975ba2e841a248003e6f93c51c59d6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man7/provider-encoder.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/provider-encoder.pod
@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ The name of an implementation should match the type of object it handles.
 For example, an implementation that encodes an RSA key should be named "RSA".
 Likewise, an implementation that further encodes DER should be named "DER".
 
-Properties can be used to further specify details about an implementation:
+Properties, as defined in the L<OSSL_ALGORITHM(3)> array element of each
+decoder implementation, can be used to further specify details about an
+implementation:
 
 =over 4