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authorPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2017-03-30 07:38:30 +1000
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-03-30 14:16:41 +0200
commitc4de074e6385a86a43a30fee574e77f9dcabb022 (patch)
tree7eb54e6fb75dfa521707d049acea50f41a020f9f /doc/man1/dsa.pod
parent3cb47b4ec1514248996ca037a5e7890ea7fdc855 (diff)
Documentation updates
Fix capitilistion of list items. Wrap long lines. Add full stops to the ends of sentances. Change ciphersuite to cipher suite in all of doc. [skip ci] Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3082)
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diff --git a/doc/man1/dsa.pod b/doc/man1/dsa.pod
index b85298773e..2f8df0c3eb 100644
--- a/doc/man1/dsa.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/dsa.pod
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ prompted for.
=item B<-passin arg>
-the input file password source. For more information about the format of B<arg>
+The input file password source. For more information about the format of B<arg>
see the B<PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS> section in L<openssl(1)>.
=item B<-out filename>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ filename.
=item B<-passout arg>
-the output file password source. For more information about the format of B<arg>
+The output file password source. For more information about the format of B<arg>
see the B<PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS> section in L<openssl(1)>.
=item B<-aes128|-aes192|-aes256|-aria128|-aria192|-aria256|-camellia128|-camellia192|-camellia256|-des|-des3|-idea>
@@ -100,30 +100,30 @@ These options can only be used with PEM format output files.
=item B<-text>
-prints out the public, private key components and parameters.
+Prints out the public, private key components and parameters.
=item B<-noout>
-this option prevents output of the encoded version of the key.
+This option prevents output of the encoded version of the key.
=item B<-modulus>
-this option prints out the value of the public key component of the key.
+This option prints out the value of the public key component of the key.
=item B<-pubin>
-by default a private key is read from the input file: with this option a
+By default, a private key is read from the input file. With this option a
public key is read instead.
=item B<-pubout>
-by default a private key is output. With this option a public
+By default, a private key is output. With this option a public
key will be output instead. This option is automatically set if the input is
a public key.
=item B<-engine id>
-specifying an engine (by its unique B<id> string) will cause B<dsa>
+Specifying an engine (by its unique B<id> string) will cause B<dsa>
to attempt to obtain a functional reference to the specified engine,
thus initialising it if needed. The engine will then be set as the default
for all available algorithms.