Change the default keysize to 2048 bits, and the minimum to 512 bits.
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

Signed-off-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>

All instances of SSLeay (any combination of case) were replaced with
the case-equivalent OpenSSL.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Remove asn1-kludge option from the req utility. It was a decade old
workaround for CAs and software which required an invalid encoding
of PKCS#10 certificate requests: omitting the attributes field even
though it is not OPTIONAL.
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

Make all mention of digest algorithm use "any supported algorithm"

RT2071, some new manpages from Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>:
    X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir.pod
    X509_check_ca.pod
    X509_check_issued.pod

RT 1600:
    Remove references to non-existant objects(3)
    Add RETURN VALUES to BIO_do_accept page.

RT1818:
    RSA_sign Can return values other than 0 on failure.

RT3634:
    Fix AES CBC aliases (Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden@yandex.com>)

RT3678:
    Some clarifications to BIO_new_pair
    (Devchandra L Meetei <dlmeetei@gmail.com>)

RT3787:
    Fix some EVP_ function return values
    (Laetitia Baudoin <lbaudoin@google.com>)
Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>

Signed-off-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>
Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>

L<foo|foo> is sub-optimal  If the xref is the same as the title,
which is what we do, then you only need L<foo>.  This fixes all
1457 occurrences in 349 files.  Approximately.  (And pod used to
need both.)
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Thanks folks:
        348 Benjamin Kaduk
        317 Christian Brueffer
        254 Erik Tews
        253 Erik Tews
        219 Carl Mehner
        155 (ghost)
        95 mancha
        51 DominikNeubauer
Reviewed-by: NDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>

Signed-off-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>
Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>

RT842, closed back in 2004, changed the default serial number
to be a random number rather than zero.  Finally time to update
the doc
Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>

The x509_extensions should be req_extensions in the
config example in req.pod

Reviewed-by: tjh@cryptsoft.com

the extension documentation.

PR: 1158
Submitted by: Michael Bell <michael.bell@cms.hu-berlin.de>

PR: 424

PR: 445

'hidden' -nameopt support. (Robert Joop <joop@fokus.gmd.de>)

sets the subject name for a new request or supersedes the
subject name in a given request.

Add options '-batch' and '-verbose' to 'openssl req'.

Submitted by: Massimiliano Pala <madwolf@hackmasters.net>
Reviewed by: Bodo Moeller

could rename too :-(

Submitted by:
Reviewed by:
PR:

that can automatically determine the type of a DER encoded
"traditional" format private key and change some of the
d2i functions to use it instead of requiring the application
to work out the key type.

and add an nseq manpage.