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            "NAME": {
                "content": "OSSLPROVIDER-base - OpenSSL base provider\n",
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                "content": "The OpenSSL base provider supplies the encoding for OpenSSL's asymmetric cryptography.\n",
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                        "content": "The implementations in this provider specifically have this property defined:\n\n\"provider=base\"\n\nIt may be used in a property query string with fetching functions.\n\nIt isn't mandatory to query for this property, except to make sure to get implementations of\nthis provider and none other.\n\n\"type=parameters\"\n\"type=private\"\n\"type=public\"\n\nThese may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select which data are\nto be encoded.  Either the private key material, the public key material or the domain\nparameters can be selected.\n\n\"format=der\"\n\"format=pem\"\n\"format=text\"\n\nThese may be used in a property query string with fetching functions to select the encoding\noutput format.  Either the DER, PEM and plaintext are currently permitted.\n"
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                        "name": "Asymmetric Key Encoder",
                        "content": "In addition to \"provider=base\", some of these encoders define the property \"fips=yes\", to\nallow them to be used together with the FIPS provider.\n\nRSA, see OSSLENCODER-RSA(7)\nDH, see OSSLENCODER-DH(7)\nDSA, see OSSLENCODER-DSA(7)\nEC, see OSSLENCODER-EC(7)\nX25519, see OSSLENCODER-X25519(7)\nX448, see OSSLENCODER-X448(7)\n"
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                "content": "OSSLPROVIDER-default(7), openssl-core.h(7), openssl-coredispatch.h(7), provider(7)\n",
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            "COPYRIGHT": {
                "content": "Copyright 2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.\n\nLicensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the \"License\").  You may not use this file except in\ncompliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source\ndistribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.\n\n\n\n3.0.2                                        2026-06-02                     OSSLPROVIDER-BASE(7SSL)",
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