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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-05-26 09:08:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2021-05-27 11:06:01 +0200 |
| commit | 54e8f7259bec08a6655a0693a315a75d9ce65e95 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e0e670f6ce6218f0f8cef19c86bc0979cb7f0d4 /apps | |
| parent | 3257179b7a9a9430c5b54fe0321fdc6862f91345 (diff) | |
DOC: Improve description of 'req' app: -new, -newkey, and -keyout options
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13715)
Diffstat (limited to 'apps')
| -rw-r--r-- | apps/req.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apps/req.c b/apps/req.c index 67cefa7e87..9edb1deb96 100644 --- a/apps/req.c +++ b/apps/req.c @@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ const OPTIONS req_options[] = { {"keyout", OPT_KEYOUT, '>', "File to save newly created private key"}, {"passin", OPT_PASSIN, 's', "Private key and certificate password source"}, {"passout", OPT_PASSOUT, 's', "Output file pass phrase source"}, - {"newkey", OPT_NEWKEY, 's', "Specify as type:bits"}, + {"newkey", OPT_NEWKEY, 's', + "Generate new key with [<alg>:]<nbits> or <alg>[:<file>] or param:<file>"}, {"pkeyopt", OPT_PKEYOPT, 's', "Public key options as opt:value"}, {"sigopt", OPT_SIGOPT, 's', "Signature parameter in n:v form"}, {"vfyopt", OPT_VFYOPT, 's', "Verification parameter in n:v form"}, |