Adjust documentation for upcoming DSA_generate_parameters removal

This removes any mention of DSA_generate_parameters in the manuals apart
from a comment that it is intentionally undocumented and ad

Adjust documentation for upcoming DSA_generate_parameters removal

This removes any mention of DSA_generate_parameters in the manuals apart
from a comment that it is intentionally undocumented and adapts cross
references to DSA_generate_parameters_ex. The file itself will be moved
in a second step.

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primility -> primality
ok tb@

Document recent changes in primality testing

With input from beck and jsing

mandoc -Tlint tells me I forgot to zap a comma

Remove documentation of BN_generate_prime(), BN_is_prime{,_fasttest}()

Major overhaul.

Remove many statements that are no longer true after tb@, in July,
massively improved the algorithms used by these functions
and also did some cleanup of the interface. Instead, exp

Major overhaul.

Remove many statements that are no longer true after tb@, in July,
massively improved the algorithms used by these functions
and also did some cleanup of the interface. Instead, explain
many aspects that were missing. Also use more descriptive argument
names, drop some redundancy, and improve ordering in various respects.

Feedback and enthusiastic OK from tb@.

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use n-bit <noun> consistently; ok schwarze for the principal of the idea,
and for flagging which pages to check;

Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of
not being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of
the input. For larger primes this will result in more rounds of
Mi

Change generating and checking of primes so that the error rate of
not being prime depends on the intended use based on the size of
the input. For larger primes this will result in more rounds of
Miller-Rabin. The maximal error rate for primes with more than
1080 bits is lowered to 2^-128.
Patch from Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> and Annie Yousar
via OpenSSL commit feac7a1c Jul 25 18:55:16 2018 +0200,
still under a free license.
OK tb@.

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delete references to ERR pages from SEE ALSO where such
references were already given below RETURN VALUES right above

Remove the last references to the RAND_*(3) functions.
These references were misleading because these functions are no
longer used internally and applications should not call them either.
Issue broug

Remove the last references to the RAND_*(3) functions.
These references were misleading because these functions are no
longer used internally and applications should not call them either.
Issue brought up by tb@.

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Mention that some functions call BN_GENCB_call(3) with a second
argument of 3; from Beat Bolli <dev at drbeat dot li>
via OpenSSL commit bd93f1ac Jul 28 16:45:22 2018 -0400.

found a complete archive of SSLeay-0.4 to SSLeay-0.8.1b tarballs
on the web, so fix up SSLeay HISTORY accordingly

finish crypto HISTORY; mostly 1.1.0/6.3, but also various other fixes

crypto HISTORY up to 0.9.8; researched from OpenSSL git

crypto HISTORY up to 0.9.5; researched from OpenSSL git

crypto HISTORY up to SSLeay 0.9.1; researched from OpenSSL git

bn.h HISTORY up to SSLeay 0.9.0; researched from OpenSSL git

bn.h HISTORY up to SSLeay 0.8.1b; researched from OpenSSL git

In bn.h rev. 1.38 2018/02/20 17:13:14, jsing@ provided
BN_GENCB_new(3), BN_GENCB_free(3), and BN_GENCB_get_arg(3).
Merge the documentation from OpenSSL, verbatim.

correctly mark all documented macros found in <openssl/bn.h>

replace all references to bn(3) with BN_new(3),
and make sure all BN*(3) pages point back to BN_new(3)

replace cross-references to the rand(3) manual that no longer exists

Add Copyright and license.
In the SYNOPSIS, show prototypes rather than #define directives.
Clarify that BN_generate_prime_ex(3) takes the minimum length,
not the exact length.

first pass; ok schwarze

fourth batch of perlpod(1) to mdoc(7) conversion