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Title "OPENSSL 1" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
openssl - OpenSSL command line tool Header "SYNOPSIS" \fBopenssl \fIcommand [ command_opts ] [ command_args ]

\fBopenssl [ list-standard-commands | list-message-digest-commands | list-cipher-commands ]

\fBopenssl no-\s-1XXX\s0 [ arbitrary options ]

Header "DESCRIPTION" OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (\s-1SSL\s0 v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (\s-1TLS\s0 v1) network protocols and related cryptography standards required by them.

The openssl program is a command line tool for using the various cryptography functions of OpenSSL's crypto library from the shell. It can be used for

.Vb 6 o Creation of RSA, DH and DSA key parameters o Creation of X.509 certificates, CSRs and CRLs o Calculation of Message Digests o Encryption and Decryption with Ciphers o SSL/TLS Client and Server Tests o Handling of S/MIME signed or encrypted mail .Ve

Header "COMMAND SUMMARY" The openssl program provides a rich variety of commands (command in the \s-1SYNOPSIS\s0 above), each of which often has a wealth of options and arguments (command_opts and command_args in the \s-1SYNOPSIS\s0).

The pseudo-commands list-standard-commands, list-message-digest-commands, and list-cipher-commands output a list (one entry per line) of the names of all standard commands, message digest commands, or cipher commands, respectively, that are available in the present openssl utility.

The pseudo-command no-\s-1XXX\s0 tests whether a command of the specified name is available. If no command named \s-1XXX\s0 exists, it returns 0 (success) and prints no-\s-1XXX\s0; otherwise it returns 1 and prints \s-1XXX\s0. In both cases, the output goes to stdout and nothing is printed to stderr. Additional command line arguments are always ignored. Since for each cipher there is a command of the same name, this provides an easy way for shell scripts to test for the availability of ciphers in the openssl program. (no-\s-1XXX\s0 is not able to detect pseudo-commands such as quit, \fBlist-...-commands, or no-\s-1XXX\s0 itself.)

Subsection "STANDARD COMMANDS" Item "asn1parse" Parse an \s-1ASN.1\s0 sequence. Item "ca" Certificate Authority (\s-1CA\s0) Management. Item "ciphers" Cipher Suite Description Determination. Item "crl" Certificate Revocation List (\s-1CRL\s0) Management. Item "crl2pkcs7" \s-1CRL\s0 to PKCS#7 Conversion. Item "dgst" Message Digest Calculation. Item "dh" Diffie-Hellman Parameter Management. Obsoleted by dhparam. Item "dsa" \s-1DSA\s0 Data Management. Item "dsaparam" \s-1DSA\s0 Parameter Generation. Item "enc" Encoding with Ciphers. Item "errstr" Error Number to Error String Conversion. Item "dhparam" Generation and Management of Diffie-Hellman Parameters. Item "gendh" Generation of Diffie-Hellman Parameters. Obsoleted by dhparam. Item "gendsa" Generation of \s-1DSA\s0 Parameters. Item "genrsa" Generation of \s-1RSA\s0 Parameters. Item "ocsp" Online Certificate Status Protocol utility. Item "passwd" Generation of hashed passwords. Item "pkcs12" PKCS#12 Data Management. Item "pkcs7" PKCS#7 Data Management. Item "rand" Generate pseudo-random bytes. Item "req" X.509 Certificate Signing Request (\s-1CSR\s0) Management. Item "rsa" \s-1RSA\s0 Data Management. Item "rsautl" \s-1RSA\s0 utility for signing, verification, encryption, and decryption. Item "s_client" This implements a generic \s-1SSL/TLS\s0 client which can establish a transparent connection to a remote server speaking \s-1SSL/TLS.\s0 It's intended for testing purposes only and provides only rudimentary interface functionality but internally uses mostly all functionality of the OpenSSL ssl library. Item "s_server" This implements a generic \s-1SSL/TLS\s0 server which accepts connections from remote clients speaking \s-1SSL/TLS.\s0 It's intended for testing purposes only and provides only rudimentary interface functionality but internally uses mostly all functionality of the OpenSSL ssl library. It provides both an own command line oriented protocol for testing \s-1SSL\s0 functions and a simple \s-1HTTP\s0 response facility to emulate an SSL/TLS-aware webserver. Item "s_time" \s-1SSL\s0 Connection Timer. Item "sess_id" \s-1SSL\s0 Session Data Management. Item "smime" S/MIME mail processing. Item "speed" Algorithm Speed Measurement. Item "verify" X.509 Certificate Verification. Item "version" OpenSSL Version Information. Item "x509" X.509 Certificate Data Management. Subsection "MESSAGE DIGEST COMMANDS" Item "md2" \s-1MD2\s0 Digest Item "md5" \s-1MD5\s0 Digest Item "mdc2" \s-1MDC2\s0 Digest Item "rmd160" \s-1RMD-160\s0 Digest Item "sha" \s-1SHA\s0 Digest Item "sha1" \s-1SHA-1\s0 Digest Item "sha224" \s-1SHA-224\s0 Digest Item "sha256" \s-1SHA-256\s0 Digest Item "sha384" \s-1SHA-384\s0 Digest Item "sha512" \s-1SHA-512\s0 Digest Subsection "ENCODING AND CIPHER COMMANDS" Item "base64" Base64 Encoding Item "bf bf-cbc bf-cfb bf-ecb bf-ofb" Blowfish Cipher Item "cast cast-cbc" \s-1CAST\s0 Cipher Item "cast5-cbc cast5-cfb cast5-ecb cast5-ofb" \s-1CAST5\s0 Cipher Item "des des-cbc des-cfb des-ecb des-ede des-ede-cbc des-ede-cfb des-ede-ofb des-ofb" \s-1DES\s0 Cipher Item "des3 desx des-ede3 des-ede3-cbc des-ede3-cfb des-ede3-ofb" Triple-DES Cipher Item "idea idea-cbc idea-cfb idea-ecb idea-ofb" \s-1IDEA\s0 Cipher Item "rc2 rc2-cbc rc2-cfb rc2-ecb rc2-ofb" \s-1RC2\s0 Cipher Item "rc4" \s-1RC4\s0 Cipher Item "rc5 rc5-cbc rc5-cfb rc5-ecb rc5-ofb" \s-1RC5\s0 Cipher Header "PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS" Several commands accept password arguments, typically using -passin and -passout for input and output passwords respectively. These allow the password to be obtained from a variety of sources. Both of these options take a single argument whose format is described below. If no password argument is given and a password is required then the user is prompted to enter one: this will typically be read from the current terminal with echoing turned off. Item "pass:password" the actual password is password. Since the password is visible to utilities (like 'ps' under Unix) this form should only be used where security is not important. Item "env:var" obtain the password from the environment variable var. Since the environment of other processes is visible on certain platforms (e.g. ps under certain Unix OSes) this option should be used with caution. Item "file:pathname" the first line of pathname is the password. If the same pathname argument is supplied to -passin and -passout arguments then the first line will be used for the input password and the next line for the output password. pathname need not refer to a regular file: it could for example refer to a device or named pipe. Item "fd:number" read the password from the file descriptor number. This can be used to send the data via a pipe for example. Item "stdin" read the password from standard input. Header "SEE ALSO" \fIasn1parse\|(1), ca\|(1), config\|(5), \fIcrl\|(1), crl2pkcs7\|(1), dgst\|(1), \fIdhparam\|(1), dsa\|(1), dsaparam\|(1), \fIenc\|(1), gendsa\|(1), \fIgenrsa\|(1), nseq\|(1), openssl\|(1), \fIpasswd\|(1), \fIpkcs12\|(1), pkcs7\|(1), pkcs8\|(1), \fIrand\|(1), req\|(1), rsa\|(1), \fIrsautl\|(1), s_client\|(1), \fIs_server\|(1), s_time\|(1), \fIsmime\|(1), spkac\|(1), \fIverify\|(1), version\|(1), x509\|(1), \fIcrypto\|(3), ssl\|(3) Header "HISTORY" The openssl\|(1) document appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.2. The list-\s-1XXX\s0-commands pseudo-commands were added in OpenSSL 0.9.3; the no-\s-1XXX\s0 pseudo-commands were added in OpenSSL 0.9.5a. For notes on the availability of other commands, see their individual manual pages.