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Document BLAKE2's variable size
authorнаб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:01:28 +0000 (00:01 +0200)
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Wed, 8 Nov 2023 08:43:10 +0000 (09:43 +0100)
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22444)

doc/man3/EVP_blake2b512.pod

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@@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ calling these functions multiple times and should consider using
 L<EVP_MD_fetch(3)> with L<EVP_MD-BLAKE2(7)> instead.
 See L<crypto(7)/Performance> for further information.
 
-While the BLAKE2b and BLAKE2s algorithms supports a variable length digest,
-this implementation outputs a digest of a fixed length (the maximum length
-supported), which is 512-bits for BLAKE2b and 256-bits for BLAKE2s.
+Both algorithms support a variable-length digest,
+but this is only available through L<EVP_MD-BLAKE2(7)>.
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES