[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#731947: Bug#731947: genrsa manpage talks about 512 bits default key size

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:40:08PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Package: openssl
> Version: 1.0.1e-4
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/genrsa.1ssl.gz
> 
> Hi!
> 
> reading the manpage
> 
>        numbits
>            the size of the private key to generate in bits. This must
>            be the last option specified. The default is 512.
> 
> fortunately openssl does generate stronger keys (1024) by default so
> the manpage needs update

I should update the default to 2048 too.  It seems I only did this
for req.

(svn now also defaults to SHA256 instead of SHA1)


Kurt