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RAND: document that the ENGINE RAND override is deprecated. 

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12226)
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Pauli 2020-07-14 10:27:39 +10:00 committed by Richard Levitte
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@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ RAND_OpenSSL() returns the default B<RAND_METHOD> implementation by OpenSSL.
This implementation ensures that the PRNG state is unique for each thread.
If an B<ENGINE> is loaded that provides the RAND API, however, it will
be used instead of the method returned by RAND_OpenSSL().
be used instead of the method returned by RAND_OpenSSL(). This is deprecated
in OpenSSL 3.0.
RAND_set_rand_method() makes B<meth> the method for PRNG use. If an
ENGINE was providing the method, it will be released first.
@ -58,6 +59,11 @@ L<RAND_bytes(3)>,
L<ENGINE_by_id(3)>,
L<RAND(7)>
=head1 HISTORY
The ability for an B<ENGINE> to replace the RAND API was deprecated in
OpenSSL 3.0.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.