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dsaparam - DSA parameter manipulation and generation
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This command is used to manipulate or generate DSA parameter files.
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=item B<-inform DER|PEM>
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This specifies the input format. The B<DER> option uses an ASN1 DER encoded
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form compatible with RFC2459 (PKIX) DSS-Parms that is a SEQUENCE consisting
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of p, q and g respectively. The PEM form is the default format: it consists
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of the B<DER> format base64 encoded with additional header and footer lines.
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=item B<-outform DER|PEM>
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This specifies the output format, the options have the same meaning as the
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This specifies the input filename to read parameters from or standard input if
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this option is not specified. If the B<numbits> parameter is included then
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this option will be ignored.
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=item B<-out filename>
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This specifies the output filename parameters to. Standard output is used
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if this option is not present. The output filename should B<not> be the same
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as the input filename.
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this option inhibits the output of the encoded version of the parameters.
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this option prints out the DSA parameters in human readable form.
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this option converts the parameters into C code. The parameters can then
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be loaded by calling the B<get_dsaXXX()> function.
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this option will generate a DSA either using the specified or generated
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=item B<-rand file(s)>
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a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number
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generator, or an EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)>).
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Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character.
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The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for
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this option specifies that a parameter set should be generated of size
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B<numbits>. It must be the last option. If this option is included then
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the input file (if any) is ignored.
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specifying an engine (by it's unique B<id> string) will cause B<req>
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to attempt to obtain a functional reference to the specified engine,
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thus initialising it if needed. The engine will then be set as the default
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for all available algorithms.
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PEM format DSA parameters use the header and footer lines:
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-----BEGIN DSA PARAMETERS-----
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-----END DSA PARAMETERS-----
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DSA parameter generation is a slow process and as a result the same set of
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DSA parameters is often used to generate several distinct keys.
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L<gendsa(1)|gendsa(1)>, L<dsa(1)|dsa(1)>, L<genrsa(1)|genrsa(1)>,