doc: remove reference to the predecessor of SHA-1.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12322)

(cherry picked from commit 69f982679ec0c8887a4324d8518a33808fee1cd7)

diff --git a/doc/man3/SHA256_Init.pod b/doc/man3/SHA256_Init.pod
index 6a8f2fa0db0eb2422bd223607b15245476edcac5..52e89e526af35d7df7eca730fc095b3faf2af5aa 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/SHA256_Init.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/SHA256_Init.pod
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ SHA512_DIGEST_LENGTH). Also note that, as for the SHA1() function above, the
 SHA224(), SHA256(), SHA384() and SHA512() functions are not thread safe if
 B<md> is NULL.
 
-The predecessor of SHA-1, SHA, is also implemented, but it should be
-used only when backward compatibility is required.
-
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 SHA1(), SHA224(), SHA256(), SHA384() and SHA512() return a pointer to the hash