The req documentation incorrectly states that we default to md5

Just remove that statement. It's not been true since 2005.

Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6905)

diff --git a/doc/apps/req.pod b/doc/apps/req.pod
index c5b5260c20017119bc82849be31366c15d816c3e..0a28aea7073193698eec1a1a9f14054544846559 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apps/req.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/req.pod
@@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ option. For compatibility B<encrypt_rsa_key> is an equivalent option.
 
 This option specifies the digest algorithm to use.
 Any digest supported by the OpenSSL B<dgst> command can be used.
-If not present then MD5 is used.
 This option can be overridden on the command line.
 
 =item B<string_mask>