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author | Rob Percival <robpercival@google.com> | 2016-03-10 20:32:16 +0000 |
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committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2017-02-22 10:40:30 -0500 |
commit | 7bb89f094de0fb544df77e5afca82ade9b413f7d (patch) | |
tree | f2ac6b9c3882898b1291da9f6a9cbb8af7c2a0df /doc/man1 | |
parent | caee75d2c66221a5c519f881ba216af9bd240c35 (diff) |
Documentation for the -precert flag for "openssl req"
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/843)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/req.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/req.pod b/doc/man1/req.pod index 83b5704bd9..5ac629aa44 100644 --- a/doc/man1/req.pod +++ b/doc/man1/req.pod @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ B<openssl> B<req> [B<-newhdr>] [B<-extensions section>] [B<-reqexts section>] +[B<-precert>] [B<-utf8>] [B<-nameopt>] [B<-reqopt>] @@ -253,6 +254,14 @@ request extensions. This allows several different sections to be used in the same configuration file to specify requests for a variety of purposes. +=item B<-precert> + +a poison extension will be added to the certificate, making it a +"pre-certificate" (see RFC6962). This can be submitted to Certificate +Transparency logs in order to obtain signed certificate timestamps (SCTs). +These SCTs can then be embedded into the pre-certificate as an extension, before +removing the poison and signing the certificate. + =item B<-utf8> this option causes field values to be interpreted as UTF8 strings, by |