NAME

       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.

NOTES

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

SEE ALSO

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

1.0.2g                                             2016-03-01                                       GENDSA(1SSL)