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The \fB\s-1DER\s0\fR option uses an \s-1ASN\s0.1 \s-1DER\s0 encoded +form compatible with \s-1RFC\s0 3279 EcpkParameters. The \s-1PEM\s0 form is the default +format: it consists of the \fB\s-1DER\s0\fR format base64 encoded with additional +header and footer lines. +.IP "\fB\-outform DER|PEM\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-outform DER|PEM" +This specifies the output format, the options have the same meaning as the +\&\fB\-inform\fR option. +.IP "\fB\-in filename\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-in filename" +This specifies the input filename to read parameters from or standard input if +this option is not specified. +.IP "\fB\-out filename\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-out filename" +This specifies the output filename parameters to. Standard output is used +if this option is not present. The output filename should \fBnot\fR be the same +as the input filename. +.IP "\fB\-noout\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-noout" +This option inhibits the output of the encoded version of the parameters. +.IP "\fB\-text\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-text" +This option prints out the \s-1EC\s0 parameters in human readable form. +.IP "\fB\-C\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-C" +This option converts the \s-1EC\s0 parameters into C code. The parameters can then +be loaded by calling the \fB\f(BIget_ec_group_XXX()\fB\fR function. +.IP "\fB\-check\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-check" +Validate the elliptic curve parameters. +.IP "\fB\-name arg\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-name arg" +Use the \s-1EC\s0 parameters with the specified 'short' name. Use \fB\-list_curves\fR +to get a list of all currently implemented \s-1EC\s0 parameters. +.IP "\fB\-list_curves\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-list_curves" +If this options is specified \fBecparam\fR will print out a list of all +currently implemented \s-1EC\s0 parameters names and exit. +.IP "\fB\-conv_form\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-conv_form" +This specifies how the points on the elliptic curve are converted +into octet strings. Possible values are: \fBcompressed\fR (the default +value), \fBuncompressed\fR and \fBhybrid\fR. For more information regarding +the point conversion forms please read the X9.62 standard. +\&\fBNote\fR Due to patent issues the \fBcompressed\fR option is disabled +by default for binary curves and can be enabled by defining +the preprocessor macro \fB\s-1OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP\s0\fR at compile time. +.IP "\fB\-param_enc arg\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-param_enc arg" +This specifies how the elliptic curve parameters are encoded. +Possible value are: \fBnamed_curve\fR, i.e. the ec parameters are +specified by a \s-1OID\s0, or \fBexplicit\fR where the ec parameters are +explicitly given (see \s-1RFC\s0 3279 for the definition of the +\&\s-1EC\s0 parameters structures). The default value is \fBnamed_curve\fR. +\&\fBNote\fR the \fBimplicitlyCA\fR alternative ,as specified in \s-1RFC\s0 3279, +is currently not implemented in OpenSSL. +.IP "\fB\-no_seed\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-no_seed" +This option inhibits that the 'seed' for the parameter generation +is included in the ECParameters structure (see \s-1RFC\s0 3279). +.IP "\fB\-genkey\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-genkey" +This option will generate a \s-1EC\s0 private key using the specified parameters. +.IP "\fB\-rand file(s)\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-rand file(s)" +a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number +generator, or an \s-1EGD\s0 socket (see \fIRAND_egd\fR\|(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 "\fB\-engine id\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-engine id" +specifying an engine (by it's unique \fBid\fR string) will cause \fBreq\fR +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. +.SH "NOTES" +.IX Header "NOTES" +\&\s-1PEM\s0 format \s-1EC\s0 parameters use the header and footer lines: +.PP +.Vb 2 +\& -----BEGIN EC PARAMETERS----- +\& -----END EC PARAMETERS----- +.Ve +.PP +OpenSSL is currently not able to generate new groups and therefore +\&\fBecparam\fR can only create \s-1EC\s0 parameters from known (named) curves. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.IX Header "EXAMPLES" +To create \s-1EC\s0 parameters with the group 'prime192v1': +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ecparam -out ec_param.pem -name prime192v1 +.Ve +.PP +To create \s-1EC\s0 parameters with explicit parameters: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ecparam -out ec_param.pem -name prime192v1 -param_enc explicit +.Ve +.PP +To validate given \s-1EC\s0 parameters: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ecparam -in ec_param.pem -check +.Ve +.PP +To create \s-1EC\s0 parameters and a private key: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ecparam -out ec_key.pem -name prime192v1 -genkey +.Ve +.PP +To change the point encoding to 'compressed': +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ecparam -in ec_in.pem -out ec_out.pem -conv_form compressed +.Ve +.PP +To print out the \s-1EC\s0 parameters to standard output: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ecparam -in ec_param.pem -noout -text +.Ve +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +\&\fIec\fR\|(1), \fIdsaparam\fR\|(1) +.SH "HISTORY" +.IX Header "HISTORY" +The ecparam command was first introduced in OpenSSL 0.9.8. +.SH "AUTHOR" +.IX Header "AUTHOR" +Nils Larsch for the OpenSSL project (http://www.openssl.org) |
