netbsd man page for dsa_generate_key

Query: dsa_generate_key

OS: netbsd

Section: 3

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DSA_generate_key(3)						      OpenSSL						       DSA_generate_key(3)

NAME
DSA_generate_key - generate DSA key pair
LIBRARY
libcrypto, -lcrypto
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/dsa.h> int DSA_generate_key(DSA *a);
DESCRIPTION
DSA_generate_key() expects a to contain DSA parameters. It generates a new key pair and stores it in a->pub_key and a->priv_key. The PRNG must be seeded prior to calling DSA_generate_key().
RETURN VALUE
DSA_generate_key() returns 1 on success, 0 otherwise. The error codes can be obtained by ERR_get_error(3).
SEE ALSO
openssl_dsa(3), ERR_get_error(3), openssl_rand(3), DSA_generate_parameters(3)
HISTORY
DSA_generate_key() is available since SSLeay 0.8. 1.0.1i 2009-07-20 DSA_generate_key(3)
Related Man Pages
dsa(3ssl) - linux
dsa(3) - centos
dh_generate_key(3) - netbsd
dsa_do_sign(3) - netbsd
dsa_sign(3) - netbsd
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