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diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_EncryptInit.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_EncryptInit.3
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--- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_EncryptInit.3
+++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/EVP_EncryptInit.3
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "EVP_EncryptInit 3"
-.TH EVP_EncryptInit 3 "2014-06-05" "1.0.1h" "OpenSSL"
+.TH EVP_EncryptInit 3 "2014-08-06" "1.0.1i" "OpenSSL"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -452,7 +452,10 @@ bits and 12 rounds.
.IX Header "NOTES"
Where possible the \fB\s-1EVP\s0\fR interface to symmetric ciphers should be used in
preference to the low level interfaces. This is because the code then becomes
-transparent to the cipher used and much more flexible.
+transparent to the cipher used and much more flexible. Additionally, the
+\&\fB\s-1EVP\s0\fR interface will ensure the use of platform specific cryptographic
+acceleration such as AES-NI (the low level interfaces do not provide the
+guarantee).
.PP
\&\s-1PKCS\s0 padding works by adding \fBn\fR padding bytes of value \fBn\fR to make the total
length of the encrypted data a multiple of the block size. Padding is always
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