EVP_MD-MD2(7ossl)

📦 version 3.5.0, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 EVP_MD-MD2 (7ossl) — the MD2 era, explained

okay so bestie, this is the 7ossl manual page for the MD2 EVP_MD implementation, and yes it's short, but it's still iconic and you're gonna read all of it 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

EVP_MD-MD2 — literally the MD2 EVP_MD implementation. that's her. that's the whole name 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

honey there is no synopsis here, this page is just vibes and facts. moving on 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what she does is: she gives you support for computing MD2 digests through the EVP_MD API. that's the entire job description and she does it well ✨

👑 Identity

big news: this implementation is only available with the legacy provider (yes, legacy, she's vintage, she's archival, she's in her reputation era 🫶) and she's identified with the name "MD2".

so when you're looking her up by name — that's the string you use, no cap 🔥

🧚 Gettable Parameters

she supports the common gettable parameters described over in EVP_MD-common(7). like, all the usual ones, nothing weird, nothing extra, go read that page if you want the full tea 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, they're giving supporting-character energy but they matter 💜

Copyright 2020 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>.

fr fr read the license before you do anything, it's not a suggestion 😭

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this was OpenSSL 3.5.0, dated 2026-09-25 — EVP_MD-MD2(7ossl), legacy provider princess, no cap, periodt ✨🎀🦋

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