Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man gendsa

OpenSSL                                          GENDSA(1openssl)



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     gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters

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     ooooppppeeeennnnssssssssllll ggggeeeennnnddddssssaaaa [---ooouuuutttt ffffiiiilllleeeennnnaaaammmmeeee] [---dddeeeessss] [---dddeeeessss3333] [---iiiddddeeeeaaaa] [---rrraaaannnndddd
     ffffiiiilllleeee((((ssss))))] [---eeennnnggggiiiinnnneeee iiiidddd] [ppppaaaarrrraaaammmmffffiiiilllleeee]

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     The ggggeeeennnnddddssssaaaa command generates a DSA private key from a DSA
     parameter file (which will be typically generated by the
     ooooppppeeeennnnssssssssllll ddddssssaaaappppaaaarrrraaaammmm command).

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     -ddddeeeessss||||-ddddeeeessss3333||||-iiiiddddeeeeaaaa
         These options encrypt the private key with the DES,
         triple DES, or the IDEA ciphers respectively before
         outputting it. A pass phrase is prompted for.  If none
         of these options is specified no encryption is used.

     -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.

     -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.

     ppppaaaarrrraaaammmmffffiiiilllleeee
         This option specifies the DSA parameter file to use. The
         parameters in this file determine the size of the
         private key. DSA parameters can be generated and
         examined using the ooooppppeeeennnnssssssssllll ddddssssaaaappppaaaarrrraaaammmm command.

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     DSA key generation is little more than random number
     generation so it is much quicker that RSA key generation for
     example.

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     dsaparam(1), dsa(1), genrsa(1), rsa(1)









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