From: Erik Lax <erik@datahack.se>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:43:36 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Update manual to reference the IANA TLS Cipher Suites Registry
X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.2.0-alpha1~3506
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0865200fe59e7b18fbef07077897e09ab39741dc;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

Update manual to reference the IANA TLS Cipher Suites Registry

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16179)
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diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-ciphers.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-ciphers.pod.in
index 2428f612192..d4df30686f8 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl-ciphers.pod.in
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl-ciphers.pod.in
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ used. The format is described below.
 The cipher list consists of one or more I<cipher strings> separated by colons.
 Commas or spaces are also acceptable separators but colons are normally used.
 
-The cipher string may reference a cipher using its standard name.
+The cipher string may reference a cipher using its standard name from
+the IANA TLS Cipher Suites Registry
+(L<https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xhtml#tls-parameters-4>).
 
 The actual cipher string can take several different forms.