Commit 724a1d27 authored by Rich Salz's avatar Rich Salz Committed by Rich Salz
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RT1596: Add clarifying doc.

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@@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ subject name (i.e. makes it self signed) changes the public key to the
supplied value and changes the start and end dates. The start date is
set to the current time and the end date is set to a value determined
by the B<-days> option. Any certificate extensions are retained unless
the B<-clrext> option is supplied.
the B<-clrext> option is supplied; this includes, for example, any existing
key identifier extensions.

If the input is a certificate request then a self signed certificate
is created using the supplied private key using the subject name in