On: The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017)

[lol768]

  $ lsb_release -a          
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description: Ubuntu 19.04
  Release: 19.04
  Codename: disco
  $ openssl --help           
  Invalid command '--help'; type "help" for a list.
  $ openssl help 2>&1 | head -n 3
  Standard commands
  asn1parse         ca                ciphers           cms               
  crl               crl2pkcs7         dgst              dhparam           
  $ openssl help asn1parse
  Usage: asn1parse [options]
  Valid options are:
  -help            Display this summary
  -inform PEM|DER  input format - one of DER PEM
  -in infile       input file
  -out outfile     output file (output format is always DER)
  -i               indents the output
  $ openssl genrsa -out foo.pem
  Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus (2 primes)
  ......................................................+++++
  .......................+++++
  e is 65537 (0x010001)

[JdeBP → lol768]

And as pointed out in this very discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043375 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20042633 , they do not even apply to MacOS.

[lol768 → JdeBP]

Seems that, regardless of platform, this was only really relevant back in 2017.