gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters
openssl gendsa [-out filename] [-aes128] [-aes192] [-aes256] [-camellia128] [-camellia192] [-camellia256] [-des] [-des3] [-idea] [-rand file(s)] [-engine id] [paramfile]
GENDSA(1openssl) OpenSSL GENDSA(1openssl) NAME openssl-gendsa, gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters SYNOPSIS openssl gendsa [-out filename] [-aes128] [-aes192] [-aes256] [-camellia128] [-camellia192] [-camellia256] [-des] [-des3] [-idea] [-rand file(s)] [-engine id] [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 -aes128|-aes192|-aes256|-camellia128|-camellia192|-camellia256|-des|-des3|-idea These options encrypt the private key with specified cipher 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 separated by a OS-dependent character. The separator is ; for MS-Windows, , for OpenVMS, and : for all others. -engine id specifying an engine (by its unique id string) will cause gendsa 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. 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 examined using the openssl dsaparam command. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Availability | library/security/openssl | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------------+ NOTES DSA key generation is little more than random number generation so it is much quicker that RSA key generation for example. Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2ze.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.openssl.org/. SEE ALSO dsaparam(1), dsa(1), genrsa(1), rsa(1) 1.0.2ze 2022-05-03 GENDSA(1openssl)