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<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>prime</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rev="made" href="mailto:root@localhost" /> </head> <body> <ul id="index"> <li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li> <li><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li> <li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li> <li><a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li> <li><a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a></li> </ul> <h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1> <p>openssl-prime, prime - compute prime numbers</p> <h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1> <p><b>openssl prime</b> [<b>-help</b>] [<b>-hex</b>] [<b>-generate</b>] [<b>-bits</b>] [<b>-safe</b>] [<b>-checks</b>] [<i>number...</i>]</p> <h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1> <p>The <b>prime</b> command checks if the specified numbers are prime.</p> <p>If no numbers are given on the command line, the <b>-generate</b> flag should be used to generate primes according to the requirements specified by the rest of the flags.</p> <h1 id="OPTIONS">OPTIONS</h1> <dl> <dt id="help">[<b>-help</b>]</dt> <dd> <p>Display an option summary.</p> </dd> <dt id="hex">[<b>-hex</b>]</dt> <dd> <p>Generate hex output.</p> </dd> <dt id="generate">[<b>-generate</b>]</dt> <dd> <p>Generate a prime number.</p> </dd> <dt id="bits-num">[<b>-bits num</b>]</dt> <dd> <p>Generate a prime with <b>num</b> bits.</p> </dd> <dt id="safe">[<b>-safe</b>]</dt> <dd> <p>When used with <b>-generate</b>, generates a "safe" prime. If the number generated is <b>n</b>, then check that <b>(n-1)/2</b> is also prime.</p> </dd> <dt id="checks-num">[<b>-checks num</b>]</dt> <dd> <p>Perform the checks <b>num</b> times to see that the generated number is prime. The default is 20.</p> </dd> </dl> <h1 id="COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</h1> <p>Copyright 2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.</p> <p>Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <a href="https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html">https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html</a>.</p> </body> </html>
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