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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/usr.bin/openssl/man/req.1')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/secure/usr.bin/openssl/man/req.1 b/secure/usr.bin/openssl/man/req.1 index 2b8eb1b..a16807b 100644 --- a/secure/usr.bin/openssl/man/req.1 +++ b/secure/usr.bin/openssl/man/req.1 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "REQ 1" -.TH REQ 1 "2016-01-28" "1.0.2f" "OpenSSL" +.TH REQ 1 "2016-03-01" "1.0.2g" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -433,9 +433,12 @@ command line options \fBpassin\fR and \fBpassout\fR override the configuration file values. .IP "\fBdefault_bits\fR" 4 .IX Item "default_bits" -This specifies the default key size in bits. If not specified then -512 is used. It is used if the \fB\-new\fR option is used. It can be -overridden by using the \fB\-newkey\fR option. +Specifies the default key size in bits. +.Sp +This option is used in conjunction with the \fB\-new\fR option to generate +a new key. It can be overridden by specifying an explicit key size in +the \fB\-newkey\fR option. The smallest accepted key size is 512 bits. If +no key size is specified then 2048 bits is used. .IP "\fBdefault_keyfile\fR" 4 .IX Item "default_keyfile" This is the default filename to write a private key to. If not |
