remove multibackend (#3555)
* remove multibackend
* oops
* goodbye pointless tests
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst
index 56d1890..a8a1ff3 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/index.rst
@@ -8,15 +8,11 @@
.. 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 @@
:maxdepth: 1
openssl
- multibackend
interfaces