On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 09:55:50PM +1000, Ross L Richardson wrote:
> 
> Fix a horribly mangled sentence.   Would "may" be more appropriate
> than "can"?
> 

hi.

i think the rewording is fine. i don;t think we should change "may" to
"can" though.

> Also, in the list of usages: for serverAuth and clientAuth, shouldn't
> the word "web" be elided?
> 

i don;t know. hence i will wait awhile - if no one comments, i'll take
your diff as-is.

jmc

> Ross
> 
> 
> Index: x509v3.cnf.5
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libcrypto/man/x509v3.cnf.5,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -u -p -r1.6 x509v3.cnf.5
> --- x509v3.cnf.5      6 Jun 2019 01:06:59 -0000       1.6
> +++ x509v3.cnf.5      11 Jun 2020 11:48:34 -0000
> @@ -186,8 +186,8 @@ keyUsage=digitalSignature, nonRepudiatio
>  keyUsage=critical, keyCertSign
>  .Ed
>  .Ss Extended key usage
> -This extensions consists of a list of usages indicating purposes for
> -which the certificate public key can be used for.
> +This extension consists of a list of purposes for
> +which the certificate public key can be used.
>  .Pp
>  These can either be object short names or the dotted numerical form of OIDs.
>  While any OID can be used, only certain values make sense.
> 

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