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            "text": "# OSSL_PROVIDER-legacy (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nOSSLPROVIDER-legacy - OpenSSL legacy provider\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nThe OpenSSL legacy provider supplies OpenSSL implementations of algorithms that have been\ndeemed legacy.  Such algorithms have commonly fallen out of use, have been deemed insecure by\nthe cryptography community, or something similar.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **DESCRIPTION** (1 subsections)\n- **OPERATIONS AND ALGORITHMS** (3 subsections)\n- **SEE ALSO**\n- **COPYRIGHT**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n"
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            "NAME": {
                "content": "OSSLPROVIDER-legacy - OpenSSL legacy provider\n",
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            "DESCRIPTION": {
                "content": "The OpenSSL legacy provider supplies OpenSSL implementations of algorithms that have been\ndeemed legacy.  Such algorithms have commonly fallen out of use, have been deemed insecure by\nthe cryptography community, or something similar.\n\nWe can consider this the retirement home of cryptographic algorithms.\n",
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                        "name": "Properties",
                        "content": "The implementations in this provider specifically has this property defined:\n\n\"provider=legacy\"\n\nIt may be used in a property query string with fetching functions such as EVPMDfetch(3) or\nEVPCIPHERfetch(3), as well as with other functions that take a property query string, such\nas EVPPKEYCTXnewfromname(3).\n\nIt isn't mandatory to query for any of these properties, except to make sure to get\nimplementations of this provider and none other.\n"
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                "content": "The OpenSSL legacy provider supports these operations and algorithms:\n",
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                        "name": "Hashing Algorithms / Message Digests",
                        "content": "MD2, see EVPMD-MD2(7)\nMD4, see EVPMD-MD4(7)\nMDC2, see EVPMD-MDC2(7)\nWHIRLPOOL, see EVPMD-WHIRLPOOL(7)\nRIPEMD160, see EVPMD-RIPEMD160(7)\n"
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                        "name": "Symmetric Ciphers",
                        "content": "Not all of these symmetric cipher algorithms are enabled by default.\n\nBlowfish, see EVPCIPHER-BLOWFISH(7)\nCAST, see EVPCIPHER-CAST(7)\nDES, see EVPCIPHER-DES(7)\nThe algorithm names are: DESECB, DESCBC, DESOFB, DESCFB, DESCFB1, DESCFB8 and\nDESXCBC.\n\nIDEA, see EVPCIPHER-IDEA(7)\nRC2, see EVPCIPHER-RC2(7)\nRC4, see EVPCIPHER-RC4(7)\nRC5, see EVPCIPHER-RC5(7)\nDisabled by default. Use enable-rc5 config option to enable.\n\nSEED, see EVPCIPHER-SEED(7)\n"
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                        "name": "Key Derivation Function (KDF)",
                        "content": "PBKDF1\n"
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            "SEE ALSO": {
                "content": "OSSLPARAM(3), openssl-core.h(7), openssl-coredispatch.h(7), provider(7)\n",
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            "COPYRIGHT": {
                "content": "Copyright 2020-2021 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-LEGACY(7SSL)",
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