LSH-KEYGEN(1)
NAME
lsh-keygen - Generates a keypair and write it on stdout.
SYNOPSIS
lsh-keygen [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
CAUTION! The information in this manpage may be invalid or outdated.
For authorative information on lsh, please see it's Texinfo manual (see
the SEE ALSO section).
Generates a new private key for the desired algorithm and security
level and write it on stdout.
You will usually want to pipe the new key into a program like lshwritekey, to split it into its private and public parts, and optionally
encrypt the private information.
OPTIONS
- -a, --algorithm=Algorithm
- DSA or RSA. Default is to generate RSA keys
- -l, --nist-level=Security level
- For DSA keys, this is the NIST security level: Level 0 uses 512-bit primes, level 8 uses 1024 bit primes, and the default is 8. For RSA keys, it's the bit length of the modulus, and the default is 2048 bits.
- --server
Use the server's seed-file - --debug
Print huge amounts of debug information - --log-file=File name
Append messages to this file. - -q, --quiet
Suppress all warnings and diagnostic messages - --trace
Detailed trace - -v, --verbose
Verbose diagnostic messages - -?, --help
Give this help list - --usage
Give a short usage message - -V, --version
Print program version - Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
DIAGNOSTICS
See the --log-file , --verbose , --trace and --debug options.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-lsh@gnu.org>.
ENVIRONMENT
LSH_YARROW_SEED_FILE may be used to specify the random seed file.
COPYING
The lsh suite of programs is distributed under the GNU General Public
License; see the COPYING and AUTHORS files in the source distribution
for details.
AUTHOR
The lsh program suite is written mainly by Niels Mller
<nisse@lysator.liu.se>.
This man-page was written for lsh 2.0 by Pontus Freyhult
<pont_lsh@soua.net>, it is based on a template written by J.H.M. Dassen
(Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>.
SEE ALSO
DSA(5), lsh(1), lsh-authorize(1), lsh-decode-key(1), lsh-decryptkey(1), lsh-export-key(1), lsh-make-seed(1), lsh-upgrade(1), lshupgrade-key(1), lsh-writekey(1), lshd(8), secsh(5), SHA(5), SPKI(5),
ssh-conv(1)
- The full documentation for lsh is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and lsh programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info lsh
- should give you access to the complete manual.