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authorKonstantin Shemyak <konstantin@shemyak.com>2018-03-22 19:53:59 +0200
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2018-03-27 20:08:31 +0200
commitc4eec78d221c6aa8d96d4d0ea9e7525490ffe222 (patch)
tree0b1097b6671152e87b0a1cfd1f90a436d881488a /doc
parentdee0cc108fa92952df1f0a246e9e86bb660f1211 (diff)
doc/man1/x509.pod: corrected "S/MIME signing" requirements
When the "certificate purpose" is checked and KeyUsage extension is present, either 'digitalSignature' or 'nonRepudiation' is accepted. Manual page corrected to reflect the above. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shemyak <konstantin@shemyak.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5727)
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/x509.pod b/doc/man1/x509.pod
index 81ce560c94..c375b3bcf3 100644
--- a/doc/man1/x509.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/x509.pod
@@ -871,8 +871,8 @@ this is because some Verisign certificates don't set the S/MIME bit.
=item B<S/MIME Signing>
-In addition to the common S/MIME client tests the digitalSignature bit must
-be set if the keyUsage extension is present.
+In addition to the common S/MIME client tests the digitalSignature bit or
+the nonRepudiation bit must be set if the keyUsage extension is present.
=item B<S/MIME Encryption>