Commit fb0b844a authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Document the change in req.

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 Changes between 0.9.5a and 0.9.6  [xx XXX 2000]



  *) Addition of the command line parameter '-rand file' to 'openssl req'.

     The given file takes precedence over the RANDFILE option in the

     configuration file.

     [Richard Levitte]



  *) mkstack.pl now sorts each macro group into lexical order.

     Previously the output order depended on the order the files

     appeared in the directory, resulting in needless rewriting

doc/apps/req.pod

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[B<-verify>]

[B<-modulus>]

[B<-new>]

[B<-rand file(s)>]

[B<-newkey rsa:bits>]

[B<-newkey dsa:file>]

[B<-nodes>]
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If the B<-key> option is not used it will generate a new RSA private

key using information specified in the configuration file.



=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.

The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for

all others.



=item B<-newkey arg>



this option creates a new certificate request and a new private