Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man dsaparam

OpenSSL                                        DSAPARAM(1openssl)



NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE
     dsaparam - DSA parameter manipulation and generation

SSSSYYYYNNNNOOOOPPPPSSSSIIIISSSS
     ooooppppeeeennnnssssssssllll ddddssssaaaappppaaaarrrraaaammmm [---iiinnnnffffoooorrrrmmmm DDDDEEEERRRR||||PPPPEEEEMMMM] [---ooouuuuttttffffoooorrrrmmmm DDDDEEEERRRR||||PPPPEEEEMMMM] [---iiinnnn
     ffffiiiilllleeeennnnaaaammmmeeee] [---ooouuuutttt ffffiiiilllleeeennnnaaaammmmeeee] [---nnnoooooooouuuutttt] [---ttteeeexxxxtttt] [---CCC] [---rrraaaannnndddd
     ffffiiiilllleeee((((ssss))))] [---gggeeeennnnkkkkeeeeyyyy] [---eeennnnggggiiiinnnneeee iiiidddd] [nnnnuuuummmmbbbbiiiittttssss]

DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN
     This command is used to manipulate or generate DSA parameter
     files.

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     -iiiinnnnffffoooorrrrmmmm DDDDEEEERRRR||||PPPPEEEEMMMM
         This specifies the input format. The DDDDEEEERRRR option uses an
         ASN1 DER encoded form compatible with RFC2459 (PKIX)
         DSS-Parms that is a SEQUENCE consisting of p, q and g
         respectively. The PEM form is the default format: it
         consists of the DDDDEEEERRRR format base64 encoded with
         additional header and footer lines.

     -oooouuuuttttffffoooorrrrmmmm DDDDEEEERRRR||||PPPPEEEEMMMM
         This specifies the output format, the options have the
         same meaning as the ---iiinnnnffffoooorrrrmmmm option.

     -iiiinnnn ffffiiiilllleeeennnnaaaammmmeeee
         This specifies the input filename to read parameters
         from or standard input if this option is not specified.
         If the nnnnuuuummmmbbbbiiiittttssss parameter is included then this option
         will be ignored.

     -oooouuuutttt ffffiiiilllleeeennnnaaaammmmeeee
         This specifies the output filename parameters to.
         Standard output is used if this option is not present.
         The output filename should nnnnooootttt be the same as the input
         filename.

     -nnnnoooooooouuuutttt
         this option inhibits the output of the encoded version
         of the parameters.

     -tttteeeexxxxtttt
         this option prints out the DSA parameters in human
         readable form.

     -CCCC  this option converts the parameters into C code. The
         parameters can then be loaded by calling the
         ggggeeeetttt_ddddssssaaaaXXXXXXXXXXXX(((()))) function.

     -ggggeeeennnnkkkkeeeeyyyy
         this option will generate a DSA either using the
         specified or generated parameters.



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OpenSSL                                        DSAPARAM(1openssl)



     -rrrraaaannnndddd ffffiiiilllleeee((((ssss))))
         a file or files containing random data used to seed the
         random number generator, or an EGD socket (see
         RAND_egd(3)).  Multiple files can be specified separated
         by a OS-dependent character.  The separator is ;;;; for
         MS-Windows, ,,,, for OpenVMS, and :::: for all others.

     nnnnuuuummmmbbbbiiiittttssss
         this option specifies that a parameter set should be
         generated of size nnnnuuuummmmbbbbiiiittttssss. It must be the last option.
         If this option is included then the input file (if any)
         is ignored.

     -eeeennnnggggiiiinnnneeee iiiidddd
         specifying an engine (by it's unique iiiidddd string) will
         cause rrrreeeeqqqq to attempt to obtain a functional reference to
         the specified engine, thus initialising it if needed.
         The engine will then be set as the default for all
         available algorithms.

NNNNOOOOTTTTEEEESSSS
     PEM format DSA parameters use the header and footer lines:

      -----BEGIN DSA PARAMETERS-----
      -----END DSA PARAMETERS-----

     DSA parameter generation is a slow process and as a result
     the same set of DSA parameters is often used to generate
     several distinct keys.

SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO
     gendsa(1), dsa(1), genrsa(1), rsa(1)























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