From a2c99d3270eb73ef2db5704fc54356c6b75096f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lloyd Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:33:19 +0000 Subject: Initial checkin --- doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp (limited to 'doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp') diff --git a/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp b/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..eb3a00393 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/examples/dsa_kgen.cpp @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +/* +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. + +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 (lloyd@randombit.net), August 5, 2002 + Updated to use X.509 and PKCS #8 formats, October 21, 2002 + +This file is in the public domain +*/ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include +using namespace Botan; + +int main(int argc, char* argv[]) + { + if(argc != 2) + { + std::cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " passphrase" << std::endl; + return 1; + } + + std::string passphrase(argv[1]); + + std::ofstream priv("dsapriv.pem"); + std::ofstream pub("dsapub.pem"); + if(!priv || !pub) + { + std::cout << "Couldn't write output files" << std::endl; + return 1; + } + + try { + LibraryInitializer init; + + DSA_PrivateKey key(DL_Group("dsa/jce/1024")); + + pub << X509::PEM_encode(key); + priv << PKCS8::PEM_encode(key, passphrase); + } + catch(std::exception& e) + { + std::cout << "Exception caught: " << e.what() << std::endl; + } + return 0; + } -- cgit v1.2.3