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doc: ref OpenSSL legacy provider from crypto docs #40593

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/crypto.md
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See the reference for other recommendations and details.

Some algorithms that have known weaknesses and are of little relevance in
practice are only available through the [legacy provider][], which is not
enabled by default.

### CCM mode

CCM is one of the supported [AEAD algorithms][]. Applications which use this
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[certificate object]: tls.md#certificate-object
[encoding]: buffer.md#buffers-and-character-encodings
[initialization vector]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization_vector
[legacy provider]: cli.md#--openssl-legacy-provider
[list of SSL OP Flags]: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/List_of_SSL_OP_Flags#Table_of_Options
[modulo bias]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle#Modulo_bias
[safe integers]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/isSafeInteger
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