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| author | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2000-02-12 04:03:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2000-02-12 04:03:04 +0100 |
| commit | d13e4eb0b5d307177ed9c791cf3fa5da77ff088b (patch) | |
| tree | 04aab40adb766bcbf221de99b9672013b6ee1047 /doc/apps | |
| parent | A hack to make sure access() will give us the correct answer about the (diff) | |
| download | openssl-d13e4eb0b5d307177ed9c791cf3fa5da77ff088b.tar.xz openssl-d13e4eb0b5d307177ed9c791cf3fa5da77ff088b.zip | |
Make pkcs12 and smime applications seed random number
generator (otherwise they don't work) and add -rand
option. Update docs.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apps')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/pkcs12.pod | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/smime.pod | 8 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/pkcs12.pod b/doc/apps/pkcs12.pod index 6a17b910b6..d8cace9d0a 100644 --- a/doc/apps/pkcs12.pod +++ b/doc/apps/pkcs12.pod @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ B<openssl> B<pkcs12> [B<-envpassin var>] [B<-passout password>] [B<-envpassout var>] +[B<-rand file(s)>] =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -253,6 +254,13 @@ option. This option is included for compatibility with previous versions, it used to be needed to use MAC iterations counts but they are now used by default. +=item B<-rand file(s)> + +a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number +generator. Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent +character. For MS-Windows, the separator is B<;>. For OpenVMS, it's +B<,>. For all others, it's B<:>. + =back =head1 NOTES diff --git a/doc/apps/smime.pod b/doc/apps/smime.pod index b43fb6dc1b..79e070d6aa 100644 --- a/doc/apps/smime.pod +++ b/doc/apps/smime.pod @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ B<openssl> B<smime> [B<-from ad>] [B<-subject s>] [B<-text>] +[B<-rand file(s)>] [cert.pem]... =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -173,6 +174,13 @@ corresponding certificate. If this option is not specified then the private key must be included in the certificate file specified with the B<-recip> or B<-signer> file. +=item B<-rand file(s)> + +a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number +generator. Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent +character. For MS-Windows, the separator is B<;>. For OpenVMS, it's +B<,>. For all others, it's B<:>. + =item B<cert.pem...> one or more certificates of message recipients: used when encrypting |