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	<li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
	<li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
	<li><a href="#options">OPTIONS</a></li>
	<li><a href="#notes">NOTES</a></li>
	<li><a href="#see_also">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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<h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
<p>gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters</p>
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<h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
<p><strong>openssl</strong> <strong>gendsa</strong>
[<strong>-help</strong>]
[<strong>-out filename</strong>]
[<strong>-aes128</strong>]
[<strong>-aes192</strong>]
[<strong>-aes256</strong>]
[<strong>-camellia128</strong>]
[<strong>-camellia192</strong>]
[<strong>-camellia256</strong>]
[<strong>-des</strong>]
[<strong>-des3</strong>]
[<strong>-idea</strong>]
[<strong>-rand file(s)</strong>]
[<strong>-engine id</strong>]
[<strong>paramfile</strong>]</p>
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<h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<p>The <strong>gendsa</strong> command generates a DSA private key from a DSA parameter file
(which will be typically generated by the <strong>openssl dsaparam</strong> command).</p>
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<h1><a name="options">OPTIONS</a></h1>
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<dt><strong><a name="help" class="item"><strong>-help</strong></a></strong></dt>

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<p>Print out a usage message.</p>
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<dt><strong><a name="out_filename" class="item"><strong>-out filename</strong></a></strong></dt>

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<p>Output the key to the specified file. If this argument is not specified then
standard output is used.</p>
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<dt><strong><a name="aes128_aes192_aes256_camellia128_camellia192_camellia256_des_des3_idea" class="item"><strong>-aes128|-aes192|-aes256|-camellia128|-camellia192|-camellia256|-des|-des3|-idea</strong></a></strong></dt>

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<p>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.</p>
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<dt><strong><a name="file" class="item"><strong>-rand file(s)</strong></a></strong></dt>

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<p>a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number
generator, or an EGD socket (see <em>RAND_egd(3)</em>).
Multiple files can be specified separated by an OS-dependent character.
The separator is <strong>;</strong> for MS-Windows, <strong>,</strong> for OpenVMS, and <strong>:</strong> for
all others.</p>
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<dt><strong><a name="engine_id" class="item"><strong>-engine id</strong></a></strong></dt>

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<p>specifying an engine (by its unique <strong>id</strong> string) will cause <strong>gendsa</strong>
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.</p>
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<dt><strong><a name="paramfile" class="item"><strong>paramfile</strong></a></strong></dt>

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<p>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 <strong>openssl dsaparam</strong> command.</p>
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<h1><a name="notes">NOTES</a></h1>
<p>DSA key generation is little more than random number generation so it is
much quicker that RSA key generation for example.</p>
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<h1><a name="see_also">SEE ALSO</a></h1>
<p><em>dsaparam(1)</em>, <em>dsa(1)</em>, <em>genrsa(1)</em>,
<em>rsa(1)</em></p>
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<h1><a name="copyright">COPYRIGHT</a></h1>
<p>Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.</p>
<p>Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the &quot;License&quot;).  You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<a href="https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html">https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html</a>.</p>

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