On Wednesday 11 July 2001 12:11 pm, you wrote:

Lutz -- 
That does help, thank you. 
Do you have any insight as to how and read in public and private DSA keys 
from files that are DER encoded?

thanks again.



> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:59:03AM -0400, Mark W. Webb wrote:
> > when I run this command, why does the private key file say that it is a
> > RSA private key?  This is the command that I am using.
> >
> > openssl req -inform DER -outform DER -out marktest.cert -keyout marktest
> > -newkey dsa:deleteme.param -keyform DER -new -x509 -nodes
>
> Because the "-new" overrides the "-newkey" option. "-new" has RSA hardcoded
> and as it is processed later in the list, its setting gets preference.
>
> Best regards,
>       Lutz

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