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Question about openSSL and Salt

Hey all, i have an application i am developing and i would like to use the
OpenSSL des3 encryption, the only problem i am having is when i need to input the second key verification. Heres what i have so far

Code:

openssl des3 -salt -in /tmp -out pwenc.z | echo 1111

usually for password verification i use

Code:

echo myPassword | sudo myProcessHere

and i works great however this will only get me the first key response not the second

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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gendsa

GENDSA(1)							      OpenSSL								 GENDSA(1)

NAME

       gendsa - generate a DSA private key from a set of parameters

SYNOPSIS

       openssl gendsa [-out filename] [-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 com-
       mand).

OPTIONS

       -des|-des3|-idea
	   These options encrypt the private key with the DES, triple DES, or the IDEA ciphers respectively 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 it's unique id string) will cause req 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)

0.9.7a								    2003-01-30								 GENDSA(1)

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