NAME
DSA_generate_key
—
generate DSA key pair
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.
RETURN VALUES
DSA_generate_key
() returns 1 on success or
0 otherwise. The error codes can be obtained by
ERR_get_error(3).
SEE ALSO
DSA_generate_parameters(3), DSA_get0_key(3), DSA_new(3), ERR_get_error(3), RAND_bytes(3)
HISTORY
DSA_generate_key
() first appeared in
SSLeay 0.6.0 and has been available since OpenBSD
2.4.