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GENDSA(1)                    OpenSSL                    GENDSA(1)



NAME
gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parame- ters
LIBRARY
libcrypto, -lcrypto
SYNOPSIS
openssl gendsa [-out filename] [-des] [-des3] [-idea] [-rand file(s)] [paramfile]
DESCRIPTION
The gendsa command generates a DSA private key from a DSA parameter file (which will be typically generated by the openssl dsaparam command).
OPTIONS
-des|-des3|-idea 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. -rand file(s) 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 sepa- rated by a OS-dependent character. The separator is ; for MS-Windows, , for OpenVMS, and : for all others. paramfile 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 exam- ined using the openssl dsaparam command.
NOTES
DSA key generation is little more than random number gen- eration so it is much quicker that RSA key generation for example.
SEE ALSO
openssl_dsaparam(1), openssl_dsa(1), openssl_genrsa(1), openssl_rsa(1) 2001-04-12 0.9.6g 1

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