rsa-keygen(8)

NAME

rsa-keygen - generate an RSA public/private key pair for

PKCIPE

SYNOPSIS

rsa-keygen [ -p ] NAME [ bits ]

DESCRIPTION

NAME is the file name and the identity name.

rsa-keygen writes the private key into the file NAME.priv

and the corresponding public key into NAME. It should be invoked

on each host, the private key should be moved to /etc/cipe/iden

tity.priv and the public key should be copied to the other ma

chine(s). The public key files are text files, it is possible

(and necessary) to append options in the usual format to these

files after the key.

The bits value defaults to 1024. Use -p to set a

passphrase on the private key.

SEE ALSO

pkcipe(8),ciped(8)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>

for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Feb 7, 2002

RSA-KEYGEN(8)