From acfccbd5ee09e453ac5e8f39744540907b0cac2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dr. David von Oheimb" Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:09:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] openssl.pod: Add documentation for using the loader_attic engine Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13551) --- doc/man1/openssl.pod | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl.pod b/doc/man1/openssl.pod index 16b7769ae33..3176c19eee9 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl.pod +++ b/doc/man1/openssl.pod @@ -615,6 +615,12 @@ L. The engine will be used for key ids specified with B<-key> and similar options when an option like B<-keyform engine> is given. +A special case is the C engine, which +is meant just for internal OpenSSL testing purposes and +supports loading keys, parameters, certificates, and CRLs from files. +When this engine is used, files with such credentials are read via this engine. +Using the C schema is optional; a plain file (path) name will do. + =back Options specifying keys, like B<-key> and similar, can use the generic -- 2.47.3