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Documentation improvements by Chris Palmer (Google).

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@ -54,35 +54,37 @@ in PEM format concatenated together.
=item B<-untrusted file>
A file of untrusted certificates. The file should contain multiple certificates
in PEM format concatenated together.
=item B<-purpose purpose>
the intended use for the certificate. Without this option no chain verification
will be done. Currently accepted uses are B<sslclient>, B<sslserver>,
B<nssslserver>, B<smimesign>, B<smimeencrypt>. See the B<VERIFY OPERATION>
section for more information.
The intended use for the certificate. If this option is not specified,
B<verify> will not consider certificate purpose during chain verification.
Currently accepted uses are B<sslclient>, B<sslserver>, B<nssslserver>,
B<smimesign>, B<smimeencrypt>. See the B<VERIFY OPERATION> section for more
information.
=item B<-help>
prints out a usage message.
Print out a usage message.
=item B<-verbose>
print extra information about the operations being performed.
Print extra information about the operations being performed.
=item B<-issuer_checks>
print out diagnostics relating to searches for the issuer certificate
of the current certificate. This shows why each candidate issuer
certificate was rejected. However the presence of rejection messages
does not itself imply that anything is wrong: during the normal
verify process several rejections may take place.
Print out diagnostics relating to searches for the issuer certificate of the
current certificate. This shows why each candidate issuer certificate was
rejected. The presence of rejection messages does not itself imply that
anything is wrong; during the normal verification process, several
rejections may take place.
=item B<-policy arg>
Enable policy processing and add B<arg> to the user-initial-policy-set
(see RFC3280 et al). The policy B<arg> can be an object name an OID in numeric
form. This argument can appear more than once.
Enable policy processing and add B<arg> to the user-initial-policy-set (see
RFC5280). The policy B<arg> can be an object name an OID in numeric form.
This argument can appear more than once.
=item B<-policy_check>
@ -90,41 +92,40 @@ Enables certificate policy processing.
=item B<-explicit_policy>
Set policy variable require-explicit-policy (see RFC3280 et al).
Set policy variable require-explicit-policy (see RFC5280).
=item B<-inhibit_any>
Set policy variable inhibit-any-policy (see RFC3280 et al).
Set policy variable inhibit-any-policy (see RFC5280).
=item B<-inhibit_map>
Set policy variable inhibit-policy-mapping (see RFC3280 et al).
Set policy variable inhibit-policy-mapping (see RFC5280).
=item B<-policy_print>
Print out diagnostics, related to policy checking
Print out diagnostics related to policy processing.
=item B<-crl_check>
Checks end entity certificate validity by attempting to lookup a valid CRL.
Checks end entity certificate validity by attempting to look up a valid CRL.
If a valid CRL cannot be found an error occurs.
=item B<-crl_check_all>
Checks the validity of B<all> certificates in the chain by attempting
to lookup valid CRLs.
to look up valid CRLs.
=item B<-ignore_critical>
Normally if an unhandled critical extension is present which is not
supported by OpenSSL the certificate is rejected (as required by
RFC3280 et al). If this option is set critical extensions are
ignored.
supported by OpenSSL the certificate is rejected (as required by RFC5280).
If this option is set critical extensions are ignored.
=item B<-x509_strict>
Disable workarounds for broken certificates which have to be disabled
for strict X.509 compliance.
For strict X.509 compliance, disable non-compliant workarounds for broken
certificates.
=item B<-extended_crl>
@ -142,16 +143,15 @@ because it doesn't add any security.
=item B<->
marks the last option. All arguments following this are assumed to be
Indicates the last option. All arguments following this are assumed to be
certificate files. This is useful if the first certificate filename begins
with a B<->.
=item B<certificates>
one or more certificates to verify. If no certificate filenames are included
then an attempt is made to read a certificate from standard input. They should
all be in PEM format.
One or more certificates to verify. If no certificates are given, B<verify>
will attempt to read a certificate from standard input. Certificates must be
in PEM format.
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