Suggestion for improvements to x509.pod

This commit is a suggestion to hopefully improve x509.pod. I had to
re-read it the first time through and with these changes it reads a
little easier, and wondering if others agree.

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4924)
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Daniel Bevenius 2017-12-13 15:41:02 +01:00 committed by Ben Kaduk
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@ -30,20 +30,20 @@ extension) and a few more.
Finally, there's the supertype X509_INFO, which can contain a CRL, a
certificate and a corresponding private key.
B<X509_>I<...>, B<d2i_X509_>I<...> and B<i2d_X509_>I<...> handle X.509
certificates, with some exceptions, shown below.
B<X509_>I<XXX>, B<d2i_X509_>I<XXX>, and B<i2d_X509_>I<XXX> functions
handle X.509 certificates, with some exceptions, shown below.
B<X509_CRL_>I<...>, B<d2i_X509_CRL_>I<...> and B<i2d_X509_CRL_>I<...>
handle X.509 CRLs.
B<X509_CRL_>I<XXX>, B<d2i_X509_CRL_>I<XXX>, and B<i2d_X509_CRL_>I<XXX>
functions handle X.509 CRLs.
B<X509_REQ_>I<...>, B<d2i_X509_REQ_>I<...> and B<i2d_X509_REQ_>I<...>
handle PKCS#10 certificate requests.
B<X509_REQ_>I<XXX>, B<d2i_X509_REQ_>I<XXX>, and B<i2d_X509_REQ_>I<XXX>
functions handle PKCS#10 certificate requests.
B<X509_NAME_>I<...> handle certificate names.
B<X509_NAME_>I<XXX> functions handle certificate names.
B<X509_ATTRIBUTE_>I<...> handle certificate attributes.
B<X509_ATTRIBUTE_>I<XXX> functions handle certificate attributes.
B<X509_EXTENSION_>I<...> handle certificate extensions.
B<X509_EXTENSION_>I<XXX> functions handle certificate extensions.
=head1 SEE ALSO