e the selection process. For example a property query string of &quot;provider=default&quot; could be used to force the selection to only consider algorithm implementations in the default provider.</p>

<p>Property query strings can be specified explicitly as an argument to a function. It is also possible to specify a default property query string for the whole library context using the <a href="../man3/EVP_set_default_properties.html">EVP_set_default_properties(3)</a> or <a href="../man3/EVP_default_proper