Commit 0da68ec9 authored by Adrian Vollmer's avatar Adrian Vollmer Committed by Rich Salz
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Adjust the default value of the private key size 



...in the man page to reflect the actual default (2048 instead of 512)

CLA: trivial
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2754)

(cherry picked from commit 013bc448)
parent 84740692

doc/apps/genrsa.pod

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@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ genrsa - generate an RSA private key 
=head1 SYNOPSIS



B<openssl> B<genrsa>

[B<-help>]

[B<-out filename>]

[B<-passout arg>]

[B<-aes128>]

[B<-aes192>]

[B<-aes256>]

[B<-aria128>]

[B<-aria192>]

[B<-aria256>]

[B<-camellia128>]

[B<-camellia192>]

[B<-camellia256>]
@@ -32,17 +36,21 @@ The B<genrsa> command generates an RSA private key. 


=over 4



=item B<-help>



Print out a usage message.



=item B<-out filename>



the output filename. If this argument is not specified then standard output is

used.  

Output the key to the specified file. If this argument is not specified then

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)|openssl(1)>.

see the B<PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS> section in L<openssl(1)>.



=item B<-aes128|-aes192|-aes256|-camellia128|-camellia192|-camellia256|-des|-des3|-idea>

=item B<-aes128|-aes192|-aes256|-aria128|-aria192|-aria256|-camellia128|-camellia192|-camellia256|-des|-des3|-idea>



These options encrypt the private key with specified

cipher before outputting it. If none of these options is
@@ -56,8 +64,8 @@ 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

generator, or an EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)>).

Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character.

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

all others.
@@ -71,7 +79,7 @@ for all available algorithms. 
=item B<numbits>



the size of the private key to generate in bits. This must be the last option

specified. The default is 512.

specified. The default is 2048.



=back
@@ -96,7 +104,15 @@ be much larger (typically 1024 bits). 


=head1 SEE ALSO



L<gendsa(1)|gendsa(1)>

L<gendsa(1)>



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=head1 COPYRIGHT



Copyright 2000-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.



Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use

this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy

in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at

L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.



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