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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 4 |
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diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod index dc9366b..9cb863b 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod @@ -479,7 +479,9 @@ The following I<ctrl>s are supported for the ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm. Sets the nonce length. This call can only be made before specifying the nonce. If not called a default nonce length of 12 (i.e. 96 bits) is used. The maximum -nonce length is 16 (B<CHACHA_CTR_SIZE>, i.e. 128-bits). +nonce length is 12 bytes (i.e. 96-bits). If a nonce of less than 12 bytes is set +then the nonce is automatically padded with leading 0 bytes to make it 12 bytes +in length. =item EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_CTRL_AEAD_GET_TAG, taglen, tag) |