NAME
    dsaparam - DSA parameter manipulation and generation

SYNOPSIS
    openssl dsaparam [-inform DER|PEM] [-outform DER|PEM] [-in filename]
    [-out filename] [-noout] [-text] [-C] [-rand file(s)] [-genkey]
    [-engine id] [numbits]

DESCRIPTION
    This command is used to manipulate or generate DSA parameter files.

OPTIONS
    -inform DER|PEM
   This specifies the input format. The DER option uses an ASN1 DER
   encoded form compatible with RFC2459 (PKIX) DSS-Parms that is a
   SEQUENCE consisting of p, q and g respectively. The PEM form is the
   default format: it consists of the DER format base64 encoded with
   additional header and footer lines.

    -outform DER|PEM
   This specifies the output format, the options have the same meaning
   as the -inform option.

    -in filename
   This specifies the input filename to read parameters from or stan-
   dard input if this option is not specified. If the numbits parame-
   ter is included then this option will be ignored.

    -out filename
   This specifies the output filename parameters to. Standard output
   is used if this option is not present. The output filename should
   not be the same as the input filename.

    -noout
   this option inhibits the output of the encoded version of the
   parameters.

    -text
   this option prints out the DSA parameters in human readable form.

    -C this option converts the parameters into C code. The parameters can
   then be loaded by calling the get_dsaXXX() function.

    -genkey
   this option will generate a DSA either using the specified or gen-
   erated parameters.

    -rand file(s)
   a file or files containing random data used to seed the random num-
   ber generator, or an EGD socket (see RAND_egd(3)). Multiple files
   can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character. The sepa-
   rator is ; for MS-Windows, , for OpenVMS, and : for all others.

    numbits
   this option specifies that a parameter set should be generated of
   size numbits. It must be the last option. If this option is
   included then the input file (if any) is ignored.

    -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.

NOTES
    PEM format DSA parameters use the header and footer lines:

 -----BEGIN DSA PARAMETERS-----
 -----END DSA PARAMETERS-----

    DSA parameter generation is a slow process and as a result the same set
    of DSA parameters is often used to generate several distinct keys.

SEE ALSO
   gendsa(1),dsa(1),genrsa(1),rsa(1)