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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/genrsa.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/genrsa.pod b/doc/man1/genrsa.pod
index f4ed9593ae..4e44fe51d6 100644
--- a/doc/man1/genrsa.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/genrsa.pod
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ standard output is used.
=item B<-passout 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)>.
+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>
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ for if it is not supplied via the B<-passout> argument.
=item B<-F4|-3>
-the public exponent to use, either 65537 or 3. The default is 65537.
+The public exponent to use, either 65537 or 3. The default is 65537.
=item B<-rand file(s)>
-a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number
+A file or files containing random data used to seed the random number
generator, or an EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)>).
Multiple files can be specified separated by an OS-dependent character.
The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ all others.
=item B<-engine id>
-specifying an engine (by its unique B<id> string) will cause B<genrsa>
+Specifying an engine (by its unique B<id> string) will cause B<genrsa>
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.
=item B<numbits>
-the size of the private key to generate in bits. This must be the last option
+The size of the private key to generate in bits. This must be the last option
specified. The default is 2048.
=back