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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst index 56d18901..a8a1ff30 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst @@ -8,15 +8,11 @@ Getting a backend .. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.backends -``cryptography`` aims to support multiple backends to ensure it can provide -the widest number of supported cryptographic algorithms as well as supporting -platform specific implementations. +``cryptography`` was originally designed to support multiple backends, but +this design has been deprecated. You can get the default backend by calling :func:`~default_backend`. -The default backend will change over time as we implement new backends and -the libraries we use in those backends changes. - .. function:: default_backend() @@ -31,5 +27,4 @@ Individual backends :maxdepth: 1 openssl - multibackend interfaces |