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| author | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2016-02-05 09:28:05 -0500 |
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| committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2016-02-05 12:45:59 -0500 |
| commit | 724a1d273eb2de92d1d90fed1eae7bd13b6c97d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cdc9dc36dbdb8e55e05cabda881a5b5e2e59760 /doc | |
| parent | 169394d45645bb686a187db6517aab7caeae82b0 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-724a1d273eb2de92d1d90fed1eae7bd13b6c97d1.tar.gz | |
RT1596: Add clarifying doc.
Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/x509.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/x509.pod b/doc/apps/x509.pod index e4bcb4ae45..7dde927cb4 100644 --- a/doc/apps/x509.pod +++ b/doc/apps/x509.pod @@ -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 |