EVP_CIPHER-IDEA(7ossl)

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✨ NAME ✨

EVP_CIPHER-IDEA — The IDEA EVP_CIPHER implementations 💅

okay so this is the OpenSSL manual page EVP_CIPHER-IDEA(7ossl), and it's literally here to explain IDEA symmetric encryption through the EVP_CIPHER API. bestie, that's the whole vibe.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Support for IDEA symmetric encryption using the EVP_CIPHER API. no cap, that's the headline.

🦋 Algorithm Names 🦋

okay so the following algorithms are available in the legacy provider (yes, the legacy one — periodt):

  • "IDEA-ECB"
  • "IDEA-CBC"
  • "IDEA-OFB" or "IDEA-OFB64"
  • "IDEA-CFB" or "IDEA-CFB64"

🎀 Parameters 🎀

This implementation supports the parameters described in "PARAMETERS" in EVP_EncryptInit(3). that's it, that's the param tea ☕

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Go give provider-cipher(7) and OSSL_PROVIDER-legacy(7) a little look too 🫶

Copyright 2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

signed, sealed, slayed: OpenSSL 3.5.6, dated 2026-04-07, manual page EVP_CIPHER-IDEA(7ossl) 💖✨

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