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authorDaniel Fiala <daniel@openssl.org>2022-11-30 05:59:39 +0100
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2022-12-07 09:37:25 +1100
commita63fa5f711f1f97e623348656b42717d6904ee3e (patch)
tree101fe7234acdff2e2e14030ece1351a5ffe395c5 /doc/HOWTO
parentd3db25f568087bc9dc89b6720f0b4213cd5585c3 (diff)
Replace "a RSA" with "an RSA"
Fixes openssl#19771 Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19787)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/HOWTO')
-rw-r--r--doc/HOWTO/certificates.txt2
-rw-r--r--doc/HOWTO/keys.txt4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/HOWTO/certificates.txt b/doc/HOWTO/certificates.txt
index cfd2bdabb1..78ab97b419 100644
--- a/doc/HOWTO/certificates.txt
+++ b/doc/HOWTO/certificates.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ keys, so before you create a certificate or a certificate request, you
need to create a private key.
Private keys are generated with 'openssl genrsa -out privkey.pem' if
-you want a RSA private key, or if you want a DSA private key:
+you want an RSA private key, or if you want a DSA private key:
'openssl dsaparam -out dsaparam.pem 2048; openssl gendsa -out privkey.pem dsaparam.pem'.
The private keys created by these commands are not passphrase protected;
diff --git a/doc/HOWTO/keys.txt b/doc/HOWTO/keys.txt
index 9f0967cf55..c4a74c54fc 100644
--- a/doc/HOWTO/keys.txt
+++ b/doc/HOWTO/keys.txt
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ algorithms. The most popular ones associated with certificates are
RSA and DSA, and this HOWTO will show how to generate each of them.
-2. To generate a RSA key
+2. To generate an RSA key
-A RSA key can be used both for encryption and for signing.
+An RSA key can be used both for encryption and for signing.
Generating a key for the RSA algorithm is quite easy, all you have to
do is the following: