Chelo Malagon CSIC RedIRIS wrote:
>
> Hello folks!
> I don't know if this is the apropiate forum to ask this question, but
> I would apreciate if someone could tell me how to obtain the PQG
> parameter to pass to the KEYGEN tag for generating DSA keys.
> I'm trying to use the dsaparam command of the openssl to generate a
> PEM file with the parameters needed.
>
> Has someone used this tag to generate DSA keys?
>
Yes.
You take the ouput of dsaparam, delete BEGIN and END lines, concatenate
the result so its all on one line and put that in PQG. Alternatively:
openssl dsaparam -out dsa.der -outform DER ...
openssl base64 -in dsa.der -A
should do the trick.
Steve.
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