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If this argument is not specified then standard output is +used. +.Ip "\fB\-passout arg\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-passout arg" +the output file password source. For more information about the format of \fBarg\fR +see the \fB\s-1PASS\s0 \s-1PHRASE\s0 \s-1ARGUMENTS\s0\fR section in openssl(1). +.Ip "\fB\-des|\-des3|\-idea\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-des|-des3|-idea" +These options encrypt the private key with the \s-1DES\s0, triple \s-1DES\s0, or the +\&\s-1IDEA\s0 ciphers respectively before outputting it. If none of these options is +specified no encryption is used. If encryption is used a pass phrase is prompted +for if it is not supplied via the \fB\-passout\fR argument. +.Ip "\fB\-F4|\-3\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-F4|-3" +the public exponent to use, either 65537 or 3. The default is 65537. +.Ip "\fB\-rand \f(BIfile\fB\|(s)\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-rand file" +a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number +generator, or an \s-1EGD\s0 socket (see RAND_egd(3)). +Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character. +The separator is \fB;\fR for MS-Windows, \fB,\fR for OpenVMS, and \fB:\fR for +all others. +.Ip "\fBnumbits\fR" 4 +.IX Item "numbits" +the size of the private key to generate in bits. This must be the last option +specified. The default is 512. +.SH "NOTES" +.IX Header "NOTES" +\&\s-1RSA\s0 private key generation essentially involves the generation of two prime +numbers. When generating a private key various symbols will be output to +indicate the progress of the generation. A \fB.\fR represents each number which +has passed an initial sieve test, \fB+\fR means a number has passed a single +round of the Miller-Rabin primality test. A newline means that the number has +passed all the prime tests (the actual number depends on the key size). +.PP +Because key generation is a random process the time taken to generate a key +may vary somewhat. +.SH "BUGS" +.IX Header "BUGS" +A quirk of the prime generation algorithm is that it cannot generate small +primes. Therefore the number of bits should not be less that 64. For typical +private keys this will not matter because for security reasons they will +be much larger (typically 1024 bits). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +gendsa(1) |
