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.TH AI2KEY 8 .SH NAME ai2key, dsagen, rsagen \- generate and reformat public keys .SH SYNOPSIS .B ai2key [ .BI -t " tag" ] .I keyfile \&... .PP .B dsagen [ .BI -t " tag" ] .PP .B rsagen [ .BI -b " nbits" ] [ .BI -t " tag" ] .SH DESCRIPTION .IR Factotum (4) represents public keys as lists of attribute-value pairs, each key on a single line prefixed with the string .BR key . .PP .I Ai2key converts the original Inferno representation of authentication data, in the format defined for .B authinfo by .IR keytext (6), to an attribute-value format accepted by .IR factotum (4) for the .B infauth authentication protocol. For each .I keyfile it writes a single line on standard output, containing the following fields: .IP .EX .fi .ti -3n key proto=infauth [ .I tag ] .BI "sigalg=" pkalg - hashalg [ .BI dom= host ] .BI server= host [ .BI service= svc ] .BI "user=" name .BI "signer=" name .BI "pk=" pk .BI "!sk=" sk .BI spk= pk .BI cert= cert .BI dh-alpha= hex .BI dh-p= hex .EE .PP where .RS .TP 15n .I pkalg is .BR dsa , .B elgamal or .BR rsa .PD 0 .ns .TP .I hashalg is .B md5 or .BR sha1 .br .ns .TP .B user is the user name associated with the key, as vouched for by the supporting certificate .BR cert .br .ns .TP .B signer is the user name associated with the key that signed the certificate .br .ns .TP .B pk is the user's public key .br .ns .TP .B !sk is the user's private (secret) key .br .ns .TP .B spk is the signer's public key .br .ns .TP .B cert is the .I certificate .br .ns .TP .BR dh-alpha ,\ dh-p are the Diffie-Hellman parameters shared by the user and file servers. .RE .PD .PP The key is tagged by one or more of .BR dom , .B server and .BR service , derived from the file name .IR keyfile . The server is .RB ` * ' if .I keyfile is .BR default . Otherwise .I keyfile has the form .IP [ .IB net ! ] .I host [ .BI ! srv ] .PP and .B server and .B service are set accordingly; .B dom is set if .I host looks like a domain name. Key and certificate values have the form defined in .IR keytext (6); .I hex is a large number in hexadecimal. .PP .I Dsagen prints a randomly-generated DSA private key using the NIST-recommended algorithm. If .I tag text is specified, it is printed after the .B proto attribute-value pair. Typically, .I tag is a sequence of attribute-value comments describing the key. A DSA key has the following attributes .RS .TP 8n .B p prime public modulus .PD 0 .TP .B q prime group order; divides .BR p -1 .TP .B alpha group generator .TP .B key .BR alpha ^ !secret mod .B p .TP .B !secret the secret exponent .RE .PD .PP .I Rsagen prints a randomly generated RSA private key whose .B n has exactly .I nbits (default 1024) significant bits. The key has the following attributes: .RS .TP .B size the number of significant bits in .B n .PD 0 .TP .B ek the encryption exponent .TP .B n the product of .B !p and .B !q .TP .B !dk the decryption exponent .TP .B !p a large prime .TP .B !q another large prime .TP .B "!kp\fR, \fL!kq\fR, \fL!c2 parameters derived from the other attributes, cached to speed decryption .RE .PD .PP All the numbers in .I dsagen and .I rsagen output are in hexadecimal except RSA's .BR size , which is decimal. A public key omits the attributes beginning with .L ! . A key may have other attributes as well, for example a .B service attribute identifying how this key is typically used, but to these utilities such attributes are merely comments. They can be provided in a .I tag argument. .SH SOURCE .B /appl/cmd/auth/ai2key.b .br .B /appl/cmd/auth/dsagen.b .br .B /appl/cmd/auth/rsagen.b .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR factotum (4)