| gendsa.pod (68651) | gendsa.pod (111147) |
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| 1=pod 2 3=head1 NAME 4 5gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters 6 7=head1 SYNOPSIS 8 9B<openssl> B<gendsa> 10[B<-out filename>] 11[B<-des>] 12[B<-des3>] 13[B<-idea>] 14[B<-rand file(s)>] | 1=pod 2 3=head1 NAME 4 5gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters 6 7=head1 SYNOPSIS 8 9B<openssl> B<gendsa> 10[B<-out filename>] 11[B<-des>] 12[B<-des3>] 13[B<-idea>] 14[B<-rand file(s)>] |
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| 15[B<paramfile>] 16 17=head1 DESCRIPTION 18 19The B<gendsa> command generates a DSA private key from a DSA parameter file 20(which will be typically generated by the B<openssl dsaparam> command). 21 22=head1 OPTIONS --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 32=item B<-rand file(s)> 33 34a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number 35generator, or an EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)>). 36Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character. 37The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for 38all others. 39 | 16[B<paramfile>] 17 18=head1 DESCRIPTION 19 20The B<gendsa> command generates a DSA private key from a DSA parameter file 21(which will be typically generated by the B<openssl dsaparam> command). 22 23=head1 OPTIONS --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 33=item B<-rand file(s)> 34 35a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number 36generator, or an EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)>). 37Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character. 38The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for 39all others. 40 |
| 41=item B<-engine id> 42 43specifying an engine (by it's unique B<id> string) will cause B<req> 44to attempt to obtain a functional reference to the specified engine, 45thus initialising it if needed. The engine will then be set as the default 46for all available algorithms. 47 |
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| 40=item B<paramfile> 41 42This option specifies the DSA parameter file to use. The parameters in this 43file determine the size of the private key. DSA parameters can be generated 44and examined using the B<openssl dsaparam> command. 45 46=back 47 48=head1 NOTES 49 50DSA key generation is little more than random number generation so it is 51much quicker that RSA key generation for example. 52 53=head1 SEE ALSO 54 55L<dsaparam(1)|dsaparam(1)>, L<dsa(1)|dsa(1)>, L<genrsa(1)|genrsa(1)>, 56L<rsa(1)|rsa(1)> 57 58=cut | 48=item B<paramfile> 49 50This option specifies the DSA parameter file to use. The parameters in this 51file determine the size of the private key. DSA parameters can be generated 52and examined using the B<openssl dsaparam> command. 53 54=back 55 56=head1 NOTES 57 58DSA key generation is little more than random number generation so it is 59much quicker that RSA key generation for example. 60 61=head1 SEE ALSO 62 63L<dsaparam(1)|dsaparam(1)>, L<dsa(1)|dsa(1)>, L<genrsa(1)|genrsa(1)>, 64L<rsa(1)|rsa(1)> 65 66=cut |