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authorRich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>2021-04-26 17:27:32 -0400
committerPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2021-05-05 18:09:49 +1000
commit1127754e4877b2a4bd53112de115041d1952fa12 (patch)
tree86da67fe76686af41f0e90b2c85e4dea8707c7e9 /doc
parent97b59744f2ad91adf606e6f77e355e97413e7b2c (diff)
Note that dhparam does support X9.42
Fix other wording, too. Fixes: #13151 Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15038)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man1/openssl-dhparam.pod.in16
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-dhparam.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-dhparam.pod.in
index eee69a69de..7bbd04ba5d 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl-dhparam.pod.in
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl-dhparam.pod.in
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ B<openssl dhparam>
This command is used to manipulate DH parameter files.
+See L<openssl-genpkey(1)/EXAMPLES> for examples on how to generate
+a key using a named safe prime group without generating intermediate
+parameters.
+
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
@@ -109,20 +113,12 @@ This option prints out the DH parameters in human readable form.
This command replaces the B<dh> and B<gendh> commands of previous
releases.
-OpenSSL currently only supports the older PKCS#3 DH, not the newer X9.42
-DH.
-
-This command manipulates DH parameters not keys.
-
-=head1 BUGS
-
-There should be a way to generate and manipulate DH keys.
-
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<openssl(1)>,
L<openssl-pkeyparam(1)>,
-L<openssl-dsaparam(1)>
+L<openssl-dsaparam(1)>,
+L<openssl-genpkey(1)>.
=head1 HISTORY