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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH "NAME" +openssl\-ec \- EC key processing +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +\&\fBopenssl\fR \fBec\fR +[\fB\-help\fR] +[\fB\-inform\fR \fB\s-1DER\s0\fR|\fB\s-1PEM\s0\fR|\fBP12\fR|\fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fR] +[\fB\-outform\fR \fB\s-1DER\s0\fR|\fB\s-1PEM\s0\fR] +[\fB\-in\fR \fIfilename\fR|\fIuri\fR] +[\fB\-passin\fR \fIarg\fR] +[\fB\-out\fR \fIfilename\fR] +[\fB\-passout\fR \fIarg\fR] +[\fB\-des\fR] +[\fB\-des3\fR] +[\fB\-idea\fR] +[\fB\-text\fR] +[\fB\-noout\fR] +[\fB\-param_out\fR] +[\fB\-pubin\fR] +[\fB\-pubout\fR] +[\fB\-conv_form\fR \fIarg\fR] +[\fB\-param_enc\fR \fIarg\fR] +[\fB\-no_public\fR] +[\fB\-check\fR] +[\fB\-engine\fR \fIid\fR] +[\fB\-provider\fR \fIname\fR] +[\fB\-provider\-path\fR \fIpath\fR] +[\fB\-propquery\fR \fIpropq\fR] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +The \fBopenssl\-ec\fR\|(1) command processes \s-1EC\s0 keys. They can be converted between +various forms and their components printed out. \fBNote\fR OpenSSL uses the +private key format specified in '\s-1SEC 1:\s0 Elliptic Curve Cryptography' +(http://www.secg.org/). To convert an OpenSSL \s-1EC\s0 private key into the +PKCS#8 private key format use the \fBopenssl\-pkcs8\fR\|(1) command. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.IX Header "OPTIONS" +.IP "\fB\-help\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-help" +Print out a usage message. +.IP "\fB\-inform\fR \fB\s-1DER\s0\fR|\fB\s-1PEM\s0\fR|\fBP12\fR|\fB\s-1ENGINE\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-inform DER|PEM|P12|ENGINE" +The key input format; unspecified by default. +See \fBopenssl\-format\-options\fR\|(1) for details. +.IP "\fB\-outform\fR \fB\s-1DER\s0\fR|\fB\s-1PEM\s0\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-outform DER|PEM" +The key output format; the default is \fB\s-1PEM\s0\fR. +See \fBopenssl\-format\-options\fR\|(1) for details. +.Sp +Private keys are an \s-1SEC1\s0 private key or PKCS#8 format. +Public keys are a \fBSubjectPublicKeyInfo\fR as specified in \s-1IETF RFC 3280.\s0 +.IP "\fB\-in\fR \fIfilename\fR|\fIuri\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-in filename|uri" +This specifies the input to read a key from or standard input if this +option is not specified. If the key is encrypted a pass phrase will be +prompted for. +.IP "\fB\-out\fR \fIfilename\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-out filename" +This specifies the output filename to write a key to or standard output by +is not specified. If any encryption options are set then a pass phrase will be +prompted for. The output filename should \fBnot\fR be the same as the input +filename. +.IP "\fB\-passin\fR \fIarg\fR, \fB\-passout\fR \fIarg\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-passin arg, -passout arg" +The password source for the input and output file. +For more information about the format of \fBarg\fR +see \fBopenssl\-passphrase\-options\fR\|(1). +.IP "\fB\-des\fR|\fB\-des3\fR|\fB\-idea\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-des|-des3|-idea" +These options encrypt the private key with the \s-1DES,\s0 triple \s-1DES, IDEA\s0 or +any other cipher supported by OpenSSL before outputting it. A pass phrase is +prompted for. +If none of these options is specified the key is written in plain text. This +means that using this command to read in an encrypted key with no +encryption option can be used to remove the pass phrase from a key, or by +setting the encryption options it can be use to add or change the pass phrase. +These options can only be used with \s-1PEM\s0 format output files. +.IP "\fB\-text\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-text" +Prints out the public, private key components and parameters. +.IP "\fB\-noout\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-noout" +This option prevents output of the encoded version of the key. +.IP "\fB\-param_out\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-param_out" +Print the elliptic curve parameters. +.IP "\fB\-pubin\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-pubin" +By default, a private key is read from the input file. With this option a +public key is read instead. +.IP "\fB\-pubout\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-pubout" +By default a private key is output. With this option a public +key will be output instead. This option is automatically set if the input is +a public key. +.IP "\fB\-conv_form\fR \fIarg\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-conv_form arg" +This specifies how the points on the elliptic curve are converted +into octet strings. Possible values are: \fBcompressed\fR, \fBuncompressed\fR (the +default value) and \fBhybrid\fR. For more information regarding +the point conversion forms please read the X9.62 standard. +\&\fBNote\fR Due to patent issues the \fBcompressed\fR option is disabled +by default for binary curves and can be enabled by defining +the preprocessor macro \fB\s-1OPENSSL_EC_BIN_PT_COMP\s0\fR at compile time. +.IP "\fB\-param_enc\fR \fIarg\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-param_enc arg" +This specifies how the elliptic curve parameters are encoded. +Possible value are: \fBnamed_curve\fR, i.e. the ec parameters are +specified by an \s-1OID,\s0 or \fBexplicit\fR where the ec parameters are +explicitly given (see \s-1RFC 3279\s0 for the definition of the +\&\s-1EC\s0 parameters structures). The default value is \fBnamed_curve\fR. +\&\fBNote\fR the \fBimplicitlyCA\fR alternative, as specified in \s-1RFC 3279,\s0 +is currently not implemented in OpenSSL. +.IP "\fB\-no_public\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-no_public" +This option omits the public key components from the private key output. +.IP "\fB\-check\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-check" +This option checks the consistency of an \s-1EC\s0 private or public key. +.IP "\fB\-engine\fR \fIid\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-engine id" +See \*(L"Engine Options\*(R" in \fBopenssl\fR\|(1). +This option is deprecated. +.IP "\fB\-provider\fR \fIname\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-provider name" +.PD 0 +.IP "\fB\-provider\-path\fR \fIpath\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-provider-path path" +.IP "\fB\-propquery\fR \fIpropq\fR" 4 +.IX Item "-propquery propq" +.PD +See \*(L"Provider Options\*(R" in \fBopenssl\fR\|(1), \fBprovider\fR\|(7), and \fBproperty\fR\|(7). +.PP +The \fBopenssl\-pkey\fR\|(1) command is capable of performing all the operations +this command can, as well as supporting other public key types. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.IX Header "EXAMPLES" +The documentation for the \fBopenssl\-pkey\fR\|(1) command contains examples +equivalent to the ones listed here. +.PP +To encrypt a private key using triple \s-1DES:\s0 +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ec \-in key.pem \-des3 \-out keyout.pem +.Ve +.PP +To convert a private key from \s-1PEM\s0 to \s-1DER\s0 format: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ec \-in key.pem \-outform DER \-out keyout.der +.Ve +.PP +To print out the components of a private key to standard output: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ec \-in key.pem \-text \-noout +.Ve +.PP +To just output the public part of a private key: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ec \-in key.pem \-pubout \-out pubkey.pem +.Ve +.PP +To change the parameters encoding to \fBexplicit\fR: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ec \-in key.pem \-param_enc explicit \-out keyout.pem +.Ve +.PP +To change the point conversion form to \fBcompressed\fR: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& openssl ec \-in key.pem \-conv_form compressed \-out keyout.pem +.Ve +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +\&\fBopenssl\fR\|(1), +\&\fBopenssl\-pkey\fR\|(1), +\&\fBopenssl\-ecparam\fR\|(1), +\&\fBopenssl\-dsa\fR\|(1), +\&\fBopenssl\-rsa\fR\|(1) +.SH "HISTORY" +.IX Header "HISTORY" +The \fB\-engine\fR option was deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0. +.PP +The \fB\-conv_form\fR and \fB\-no_public\fR options are no longer supported +with keys loaded from an engine in OpenSSL 3.0. +.SH "COPYRIGHT" +.IX Header "COPYRIGHT" +Copyright 2003\-2022 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +.PP +Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use +this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy +in the file \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at +<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. |