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1.Dd $Mdocdate: November 3 2016 $
2.Dt OPENSSL_ADD_ALL_ALGORITHMS 3
3.Os
4.Sh NAME
5.Nm OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms ,
6.Nm OpenSSL_add_all_ciphers ,
7.Nm OpenSSL_add_all_digests ,
8.Nm EVP_cleanup
9.Nd add algorithms to internal table
10.Sh SYNOPSIS
11.In openssl/evp.h
12.Ft void
13.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms void
14.Ft void
15.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_ciphers void
16.Ft void
17.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_digests void
18.Ft void
19.Fn EVP_cleanup void
20.Sh DESCRIPTION
21OpenSSL keeps an internal table of digest algorithms and ciphers.
22It uses this table to lookup ciphers via functions such as
23.Xr EVP_get_cipherbyname 3 .
24.Pp
25.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms
26adds all algorithms to the table (digests and ciphers).
27.Pp
28.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_digests
29adds all digest algorithms to the table.
30.Pp
31.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_ciphers
32adds all encryption algorithms to the table including password based
33encryption algorithms.
34.Pp
35.Fn EVP_cleanup
36removes all ciphers and digests from the table.
37.Pp
38A typical application will call
39.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms
40initially and
41.Fn EVP_cleanup
42before exiting.
43.Pp
44An application does not need to add algorithms to use them explicitly,
45for example by
46.Xr EVP_sha1 3 .
47It just needs to add them if it (or any of the functions it calls) needs
48to lookup algorithms.
49.Pp
50The cipher and digest lookup functions are used in many parts of the
51library.
52If the table is not initialized, several functions will misbehave and
53complain they cannot find algorithms.
54This includes the PEM, PKCS#12, SSL and S/MIME libraries.
55This is a common query in the OpenSSL mailing lists.
56.Pp
57Calling
58.Fn OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms
59links in all algorithms: as a result a statically linked executable can
60be quite large.
61If this is important, it is possible to just add the required ciphers and
62digests.
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr evp 3 ,
65.Xr EVP_DigestInit 3 ,
66.Xr EVP_EncryptInit 3
67.Sh BUGS
68Although the functions do not return error codes, it is possible for them
69to fail.
70This will only happen as a result of a memory allocation failure so this
71is not too much of a problem in practice.