Standardized the -rand flag and added a new one:
    -rand file...
            Always reads the specified files
    -writerand file
            Always writes to the file on exit

For apps that use a config file, the RANDFILE config parameter reads
the file at startup (to seed the RNG) and write to it on exit if
the -writerand flag isn't used.

Ensured that every app that took -rand also took -writerand, and
made sure all of that agreed with all the documentation.

Fix error reporting in write_file and -rand
Reviewed-by: NPaul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3862)

Allow conversion of existing requests to certificates again.
Fixes the issue #3396
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3437)

Fix capitilistion of list items.
Wrap long lines.
Add full stops to the ends of sentances.
Change ciphersuite to cipher suite in all of doc.

[skip ci]
Reviewed-by: NMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3082)

Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/843)

Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/843)

Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2569)

Reported by Jakub Wilk.
Reviewed-by: NMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2556)

find-doc-nits warns if you don't give a "what to do flag"
Don't use regexps for section names, just strings:  More consistency.
Rename "COMMAND OPTIONS" to OPTIONS.
Fix a couple of other nit-level things.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2076)

Move manpages to manX directories
Add Windows/VMS install fix from Richard Levitte
Update README
Fix typo's
Remove some duplicates
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

This is really a security bugfix, not enhancement any more.
Everyone knows critical extensions.
Reviewed-by: NDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>

Update script to look for period or POD markup in NAME section, and
fix them.
Reviewed-by: NAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>

Fix some code examples, trailing whitespace
Fix TBA sections in verify, remove others.
Remove empty sections
Use Mixed Case not ALL CAPS in head2
Enhance doc-nits script.
Remove extra =cut line
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Add doc-nit-check to help find future issues.
Make podchecker be almost clean.
Remove trailing whitespace.
Tab expansion
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

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>)