[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#528804: dgst, ca, x509, ... man pages in 1ssl should mention all supported ciphers

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: openssl
Version: 0.9.8g-16

Modern versions of openssl support many digest algorithms, including the
full SHA-2 family (SHA-224 through SHA-512).

But the man pages in 1ssl only seem to list algorithms up to (and
including) sha1 for some reason.

For example:

> DGST(1SSL)                          OpenSSL                         DGST(1SSL)
>
> NAME
>        dgst, md5, md4, md2, sha1, sha, mdc2, ripemd160 - message digests
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        openssl dgst [-md5|-md4|-md2|-sha1|-sha|-mdc2|-ripemd160|-dss1] [-c]
>        [-d] [-hex] [-binary] [-out filename] [-sign filename] [-passin arg]
>        [-verify filename] [-prverify filename] [-signature filename] [file...]
> 
>        [md5|md4|md2|sha1|sha|mdc2|ripemd160] [-c] [-d] [file...]
> 

and yet:

0 dkg at pip:~$ printf '' | openssl dgst -sha256
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
0 dkg at pip:~$

The output of "openssl dgst -h" does appear to list all the supported
ciphers, so this appears to be only a problem with the manual.

Thanks for maintaining openssl in debian!

	--dkg

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