Move the description of the core types into their own pages

This expands on some of the core type descriptions, and also makes it
easier to find the documentation for each type, at least

Move the description of the core types into their own pages

This expands on some of the core type descriptions, and also makes it
easier to find the documentation for each type, at least on Unix, with
a simple call like "man OSSL_ALGORITHM".

Reviewed-by: Hugo Landau <hlandau@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19842)

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doc: remove end of line whitespace

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pul

doc: remove end of line whitespace

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16641)

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Update copyright year

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15181)

Add type_name member to provided methods and use it

Fixes #14701

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14898)

Update copyright year

Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12273)

Rename <openssl/core_numbers.h> -> <openssl/core_dispatch.h>

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12222)

SERIALIZER: New API for serialization of objects through providers

Serialization is needed to be able to take a provider object (such as
the provider side key data) and output it in PEM

SERIALIZER: New API for serialization of objects through providers

Serialization is needed to be able to take a provider object (such as
the provider side key data) and output it in PEM form, DER form, text
form (for display), and possibly other future forms (XML? JSON? JWK?)

The idea is that a serializer should be able to handle objects it has
intimate knowledge of, as well as object data in OSSL_PARAM form. The
latter will allow libcrypto to serialize some object with a different
provider than the one holding the data, if exporting of that data is
allowed and there is a serializer that can handle it.

We will provide serializers for the types of objects we know about,
which should be useful together with any other provider that provides
implementations of the same type of object.

Serializers are selected by method name and a couple of additional
properties:

- format used to tell what format the output should be in.
Possibilities could include "format=text",
"format=pem", "format=der", "format=pem-pkcs1"
(traditional), "format=der-pkcs1" (traditional)
- type used to tell exactly what type of data should be
output, for example "type=public" (the public part of
a key), "type=private" (the private part of a key),
"type=domainparams" (domain parameters).

This also adds a passphrase callback function type,
OSSL_PASSPHRASE_CALLBACK, which is a bit like OSSL_CALLBACK, but it
takes a few extra arguments to place the result in.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10394)

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Fix some broken doc links

Replace L<> link to header-file with a C<> reference.
Change some broken L<provider(3)> links to L<provider(7)>.
For consistency, rename four cipher pages t

Fix some broken doc links

Replace L<> link to header-file with a C<> reference.
Change some broken L<provider(3)> links to L<provider(7)>.
For consistency, rename four cipher pages to have a specific mode.
Fix up all references to any "generic" names to point to specific names.

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10100)

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CORE: Add a generic callback function type

This offers a very generic way to define a callback as well as calling
it.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged fr

CORE: Add a generic callback function type

This offers a very generic way to define a callback as well as calling
it.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10412)

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Make doc/man7/ and doc/internal/man3/ conform with man-pages(7)

It's all in the details, from man-pages(7):

Formatting conventions for manual pages describing functions

Make doc/man7/ and doc/internal/man3/ conform with man-pages(7)

It's all in the details, from man-pages(7):

Formatting conventions for manual pages describing functions

...
Variable names should, like argument names, be specified in italics.
...

Formatting conventions (general)

...
Special macros, which are usually in uppercase, are in bold.
Exception: don't boldface NULL.
...

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10034)

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Describe OSSL_PARAM as a parameter descriptor

This affects doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod and doc/man7/openssl-core.h.pod

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from htt

Describe OSSL_PARAM as a parameter descriptor

This affects doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM.pod and doc/man7/openssl-core.h.pod

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9346)

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Replumbing: Add include/openssl/core.h, initially with core types

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8286)