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NAME
       OSSL_PROVIDER-legacy - OpenSSL legacy provider

DESCRIPTION
       The OpenSSL legacy provider supplies OpenSSL implementations of
       algorithms that have been deemed legacy.  Such algorithms have commonly
       fallen out of use, have been deemed insecure by the cryptography
       community, or something similar.

       We can consider this the retirement home of cryptographic algorithms.

   Properties
       The implementations in this provider specifically has this property
       defined:

       "provider=legacy"

       It may be used in a property query string with fetching functions such
       as EVP_MD_fetch(3) or EVP_CIPHER_fetch(3), as well as with other
       functions that take a property query string, such as
       EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(3).

       It isn't mandatory to query for any of these properties, except to make
       sure to get implementations of this provider and none other.

OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS
       The OpenSSL legacy provider supports these operations and algorithms:

   Hashing Algorithms / Message Digests
       MD2, see EVP_MD-MD2(7)
       MD4, see EVP_MD-MD4(7)
       MDC2, see EVP_MD-MDC2(7)
       WHIRLPOOL, see EVP_MD-WHIRLPOOL(7)
       RIPEMD160, see EVP_MD-RIPEMD160(7)

   Symmetric Ciphers
       Not all of these symmetric cipher algorithms are enabled by default.

       Blowfish, see EVP_CIPHER-BLOWFISH(7)
       CAST, see EVP_CIPHER-CAST(7)
       DES, see EVP_CIPHER-DES(7)
           The algorithm names are: DES_ECB, DES_CBC, DES_OFB, DES_CFB,
           DES_CFB1, DES_CFB8 and DESX_CBC.

       IDEA, see EVP_CIPHER-IDEA(7)
       RC2, see EVP_CIPHER-RC2(7)
       RC4, see EVP_CIPHER-RC4(7)
       RC5, see EVP_CIPHER-RC5(7)
           Disabled by default. Use enable-rc5 config option to enable.

       SEED, see EVP_CIPHER-SEED(7)

   Key Derivation Function (KDF)
       PBKDF1

SEE ALSO
       OSSL_PARAM(3), openssl-core.h(7), openssl-core_dispatch.h(7),
       provider(7)

HISTORY
       This functionality was added in OpenSSL 3.0.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2020-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

       Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
       this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
       in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
       <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.



3.0.12                            2023-05-07           OSSL_PROVIDER-LEGACY(7)