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diff --git a/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp b/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp index 4669cf705..e949ae54a 100644 --- a/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp +++ b/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp @@ -1,19 +1,23 @@ /* -Generate a 1024 bit DSA key and put it into a file. The public key format is -that specified by X.509, while the private key format is PKCS #8. +* (C) 2009 Jack Lloyd +* +* Distributed under the terms of the Botan license +*/ -The domain parameters are the ones specified as the Java default DSA -parameters. There is nothing special about these, it's just the only 1024-bit -DSA parameter set that's included in Botan at the time of this writing. The -application always reads/writes all of the domain parameters to/from the file, -so a new set could be used without any problems. We could generate a new set -for each key, or read a set of DSA params from a file and use those, but they -mostly seem like needless complications. -Written by Jack Lloyd ([email protected]), August 5, 2002 - Updated to use X.509 and PKCS #8 formats, October 21, 2002 +/** +Generate a 1024 bit DSA key and put it into a file. The public key +format is that specified by X.509, while the private key format is +PKCS #8. -This file is in the public domain +The domain parameters are the ones specified as the Java default DSA +parameters. There is nothing special about these, it's just the only +1024-bit DSA parameter set that's included in Botan at the time of +this writing. The application always reads/writes all of the domain +parameters to/from the file, so a new set could be used without any +problems. We could generate a new set for each key, or read a set of +DSA params from a file and use those, but they mostly seem like +needless complications. */ #include <iostream> |